Knox County Criminal Court Judge Tim Irwin appointed a representative to the board who lacks detention center experience.

Kids at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center are getting the chance to learn how to play the guitar. It helps them take ...

The names are of children stuck in jail for no legal reason — locked up in the county’s juvenile detention center only because the state’s child welfare agency doesn’t have anywhere else ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Children are being locked in solitary confinement at a Middle Tennessee juvenile detention center under conditions that experts say could amount to torture, an ...

Cook County juvenile jail is locking kids, teens in their cells for most of the day, scathing review finds The retired child psychologist Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans, named to head the ...

Juvenile justice in Ohio: How the system is supposed to work One night in detention or prison reduces a child's chances of graduating from high school by 50%, a judge says ...

Richard L. Bean remained in his perch as the superintendent of the juvenile detention center that bears his name despite scandals, investigations and the use of seclusion to punish children.

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal ...

No one believes the juvenile jail is an appropriate plan. The children are treated like prisoners, some for months. They have been removed from their parents’ home, often because of abuse or ...

A juvenile detention center in Rutherford County, Tennessee, that for years illegally jailed children will now be overseen by a five-member board rather than the county’s juvenile court judge, a ...

While the average daily population of the county’s juvenile jail dropped 73 percent since 2002, from a high of 212 to 58 today, African-American youth are much more likely to wind up behind bars.