South Dakota prosecutors filed more juvenile delinquency petitions in fiscal year 2023 than at any time in nearly a decade, according to an annual report presented Wednesday to a state committee. The ...

On Saturday, a juvenile detention officer was brutally attacked inside the Smith County Juvenile Detention Center— now, ...

One teen's story and a decade of data reveal how youth violence continues to test Louisville's leaders, families and ...

State lawmakers have moved a proposal to standardize and expand programs that divert children to alternatives to the criminal ...

In an alley in Little Village on Chicago's West Side, the faint sound of music from a Spanish-speaking radio station wafts in the air and garbage cans are sprayed with gang graffiti. They look like ...

The Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center in West Dallas on July 6, 2023. The Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center is where kids in Dallas are detained while they wait for their cases to be adjudicated.

A man and three children were hit by a driver that fled the scene at Southeast 136th Avenue and Southeast 7th Avenue; the man ...

A new report touts some progress with New Mexico's juvenile justice system with fewer felony charges. However, over half of ...