Knox County leaders are disputing claims by a former interim superintendent that the juvenile detention facility is unsafe.

There’s disagreement on how to proceed. Sheriff Garry McFadden shut it down in 2022 so he could move staff to the adult jail.

Juvenile crime has grown over the last five years, and now lawmakers are looking at what trends and changes need to take ...

Investigators found the Jackson Parish Jail violated state rules 83 times between July and February — almost 12 times more than the state’s second-worst lockup. This story was originally published by ...

The rising number of youth sent from counties like Tarrant is helping to push the waitlist for beds in youth prisons to near ...

Juvenile detention centers in Missouri offer young convicts emotional support. Waverly, Mo., Sept. 9, 2009 — -- For most of the nearly 100,000 kids in America's juvenile justice system, life in ...

SPRINGFIELD — In more than two decades as a juvenile probation officer in downstate Clinton County, Carla Stalnaker said barely a handful of children younger than 12 have found themselves in her ...

Kids at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center are getting the chance to learn how to play the guitar. It helps them take their minds off of what's going on and allows them to heal and have something ...