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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge granted a request Tuesday by the gunman in a 2001 shooting at a San Diego high school to be resentenced, potentially allowing him to be freed after 23 years in prison.