FILE - Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. A federal judge ...

Washington state proposes transferring juvenile offenders to adult prisons due to overcrowding, but faces opposition for ...

Gov. Mike DeWine said the state’s Department of Youth Services will close a 180-bed juvenile corrections facility in Cuyahoga County based on findings and recommendations from a 10-month juvenile ...

A Tulsa inmate who was "bridged" into the adult prison system after assaulting a juvenile detention center worker is now charged with stabbing a fellow prisoner at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in ...

Juvenile detainees who were being held at a former death row building at Louisiana’s adult penitentiary were transferred to a new facility in north Louisiana, state juvenile justice officials said ...