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 ...

At the risk of further trampling well-trod liberal tropes – this incarceration thing is big business. We’re the most incarceration giddy country in the developed word. Our prison population has ...

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

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

Aurora Peña, left, and Camarah Brown, right, pose with Dawson, a shelter dog in the program who’s available for adoption. At the Fort Bend County Juvenile Detention Center, a kennel sits on the edge ...

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 ...

One day after the superintendent of Knox County's juvenile detention center dismissed two key staff members, Richard Bean reversed course and reinstated both under pressure from Mayor Glenn Jacobs and ...

Policy makers are scrambling to implement fixes at Oklahoma's lone detention center for children after word spread of dangerous conditions for kids and staff members. Rep. Danny Sterling (R-Tecumseh) ...

Illinois doesn’t allow children under 10 to be held in detention facilities. But last year, there were about a dozen admissions of children under 12 and more than 60 of children who were 12 years old, ...

A woman was arrested on suspicion of attempting to bring fentanyl into a Los Angeles youth facility while visiting her child, according to a release from the Los Angeles County Probation Department.