Juvenile correction staff allowed a teenager with a history of suicide attempts to drink bleach and locked him in solitary confinement for days at a time, according to a new federal lawsuit detailing ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — So far this year, 46 teens have been arrested for possession of a firearm. With the growing trend of youth committing crimes, juvenile courtrooms are seeing more and more cases, ...

Janice Buttrum was 17 years old when she was arrested in September 1980 in Whitfield County, Georgia, for murdering a 19-year-old woman with her older abusive husband. Georgia author Jodi McDaniel ...

In and out of juvenile detention since age 11, Curtis Tassin earned the jailhouse nickname “Houdini” after three bold escapes from three different lockups. But those brazen breakouts were just the ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — As some state lawmakers seek action to address troubling allegations regarding conditions at Virginia's only youth prison, the state's juvenile justice director is raising ...

This month, The New York Review of Books ran a two-part series of articles on rape and sexual abuse in American detention facilities. This problem, according to authors David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow ...

Less than a year after a scathing report from the Department of Justice found that Texas juvenile prisons are rife with sexual and physical abuse, the state Legislature is considering sending more ...

Armed teenage detainees were seen on the roof of the Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre, throwing projectiles at prison ...

ABERDEEN — For the past few weeks, Kendrick Rochelle has been going to Washington’s overcrowded youth prison in Chehalis to build relationships with the young men held there. Rochelle is trying to ...