A rise in juvenile detentions threatens to undermine decades of effort to undo the increases seen during the 1990s, when ...

no additional details about the juvenile have been released. They also accused her of giving the boy “sexually explicit photos of herself,” as well as illegal sexual contact. She’s currently locked up ...

Eighty-five more people have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually abused while in custody in Maryland's juvenile detention system, according to a law firm.

The number of American children and teenagers in juvenile detention has sharply declined over the last few decades, but as ...

In addition to raising the age that kids can be detained from 10 to 12, starting in mid-2027 the bill would also raise the ...

The last six months at the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice have shown that things aren’t getting better.

A teacher has been accused of sexually abusing a troubled inmate at a Kentucky juvenile detention center where she worked — and then trying to get the youngster to kill her husband. Adair County ...

The sheriff's office said the juvenile's mother found explicit photos, videos and sexually suggestive messages allegedly sent by an adult man, who deputies later identified as Pottenger.

The opening of a new Washington juvenile rehabilitation center initially ... “After session, if the Legislature doesn’t give us the tools, and we have overcrowding and some major problems ...