Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins (D-La Mesa) has introduced Assembly Bill 1279 to reform youth justice policies and prevent juvenile court adjudications from triggering harsher adult sentences ...

The Fayette Regional Juvenile Detention Center on Spurr Road in Lexington. Reggie Beehner A lieutenant at the Fayette Regional Juvenile Detention Center is being punished by her bosses for exposing ...

When I started working for Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services in January 2023, I already had a deep knowledge of the agency’s past. I had previously researched and written about its Civil ...

California weakened juvenile justice tools through years of legislative reform. Assembly Bill 1376 limits court oversight in violent juvenile offender cases. Victims face trauma while released ...

LB 530 is a package of bills that make changes to public safety. A significant portion makes changes to the juvenile justice system Robert Redford dead: Hollywood icon passes away aged 89 Mace to file ...

When I was a teenager caught up in the juvenile justice system, I learned something President Trump refuses to acknowledge: the system fails most kids it touches, and treating children like enemies of ...

Juvenile crime in California is rising – and rising by a lot. Last year, the number of juveniles arrested for all types of offenses reached 32,874, which was a staggering increase of 70 percent from ...

Los Angeles County’s Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall. Imprisonment of children in juvenile facilities peaked at 108,802 in 2000. As we exit our roles working to improve juvenile justice systems from ...

(The Center Square) - Two more bills that came out of recommendations from Pennsylvania’s 2021 Juvenile Justice Task Force have passed the House with bipartisan support this week. House Bill 1576 ...

TOPEKA — A panel of U.S. Court of Appeals judges agreed with a lower court that Sedgwick County juvenile detention personnel couldn’t sidestep an excessive-force lawsuit filed against them after a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois House passed a bill Saturday to raise the minimum detainment age for minors from 10 to 13 years old. Sponsors said raising the detainment age can give young ...