Minors held in juvenile detention in Philadelphia are routinely locked in their rooms for days on end, in violation of state ...

A detention officer at the Strickland Youth Center in Mobile was arrested Monday for alleged child abuse on the clock, and ...

A gang member turned youth minister got a show of support Thursday as he turned himself in at the Federal Detention Center to ...

An investigation into the attack revealed that only half of the required eight employees were on duty at the time of the ...

That order, however, does not require SCSO to transport youth from the detention center to court. Oversight of the facility has generally included security staffing and transporting kids from the ...

In a joint letter, the mayors of Colorado’s largest cities called for a tougher response to youth crime and protested ...

Just four months after a devastating mass shooting at Georgia's Apalachee High School, another 14-year-old student brought a ...

At times children in the SC agency’s custody have to sleep in plastic cots on the floor because of overcrowding.

Young people have been chained to benches at police stations for hours as county officials try to find appropriate housing, ...

The former superintendent of a Kentucky juvenile detention center that was the site of a riot resigned in December. A newspaper report says Tonya R.