Nine men and two women are suing after they say they were sexually assaulted as children while being held in juvenile lockups ...

Minors held in detention awaiting juvenile court proceedings in Philadelphia are routinely locked in their rooms for days on ...

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

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A gang member turned youth minister got a show of support Thursday as he turned himself in at the ...

The unidentified student's arrest comes months after Colt Gray, 14, is accused of opening fire at the school in September, killing four.

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 ...

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

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

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

As a result, the county said it experienced overcrowding and riots at its Harborfields youth detention facility in Egg Harbor ...

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.