CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County has secured $30 million in state funding to build its first Community Correctional Facility, a major step toward keeping young offenders closer to home, where they ...

Nearly three years after Sheriff Garry McFadden closed Mecklenburg County's only juvenile detention center, some in the criminal justice system still hope for its return. State public safety leaders ...

Suspending more kids and sending more to jail for substance use and truancy will not reduce crime. Instead, it contributes to ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (WLS) -- There was an important milestone Thursday for an organization that works to ensure justice for young people in trouble with the law. The Juvenile Justice Initiative, based in ...

323rd District Judge Alex Kim reads the jury’s sentence on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, of the teenager who fatally shot another student at Arlington’s Lamar High School. The teen received the maximum ...

Some 1,040 youth were enrolled in Passages Academy, the education program for students charged or found responsible for a crime, last school year.

Kids at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center are getting the chance to learn how to play the guitar. It helps them take their minds off of what's going on and allows them to heal and have something ...

Juvenile detention centers in Missouri offer young convicts emotional support. Waverly, Mo., Sept. 9, 2009 — -- For most of the nearly 100,000 kids in America's juvenile justice system, life in ...

Tarrant County recently sent more kids to state youth prisons than any other Texas county, contributing to a booming waitlist for beds in the Texas Juvenile Justice Department’s five secured ...