What does the juvenile justice system look like at its most extreme? This video investigates the secure facilities across the ...

For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and ...

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

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Some states keep adding beds in already troubled facilities, while others are trying alternative approaches to detention or ...

Social justice advocates pushed for policies to end solitary confinement, improve prison conditions, grant nature personhood, ...

A lawyer is using an obscure, 100-year-old law to try to prosecute the mother of a teen driver who killed his passenger friend in a high-speed crash.

At a gathering in Philadelphia, people released from prison after receiving juvenile life without parole sentences share ...