A group of parishes along the Mississippi River is seeking more than $36 million in state funds to create a juvenile jail on ...

The leader of Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice on Tuesday vowed to have a “good strong transition plan” for Broward’s ...

A Kentucky juvenile justice guard broke the arms of two teens at McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Paducah, ...

The state’s largest facility for youth offenders remains over capacity, with one legislator describing the situation at the ...

Bernalillo County's juvenile detention center is facing maximum capacity. Tara Marcantel, the director of the Bernalillo County Youth Service Center, said 68 out of 78 beds are filled. District ...

Apart from codifying the rights of children in custody, the legislature should hold hearings this winter where state ...

Discussions around legislation to stop automatically charging minors as adults for certain crimes morphed into a debate over ...

BERNALILLO COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER IS GETTING CLOSE TO MAX CAPACITY ... SOME OF THE OPTIONS THAT WE COULD HAVE AVAILABLE TO US IS WE HAVE FIVE BEDS WITHIN OUR INTAKE UNIT.

Commissioners are concerned over the increase in length of stay and the racial disparities in DCYC's latest report.

Washington's Senate Bill 5296 is igniting intense debate over the future of the state’s juvenile justice system and ...

The Department of Juvenile Services is supportive of the proposed reforms, and its legislative director testified in support of Smith’s bill, arguing that their agency already serves the substantial ...