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

Within the walls of the Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility, there is a high school with academic, vocational and ...

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 ...

Nearly twenty years ago, the Odessa American introduced the community to a determined young man trekking across the state of Texas in a lawnmower to benefit St. Jude’s Ranch for Children. Now a ...

TALLULAH, La. -- The allegations began soon after the prison opened for business: teenage inmates beaten by guards, beating each other, running loose on the rooftops of the barracks. Ten years later, ...

Does sentencing a juvenile offender to life in prison violate the Constitution's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment"? The Supreme Court is set to consider that question. The court will hear ...