The children of Natalie Cochran, ages 17 and 20, testified Thursday in her trial where she stands accused of murdering their ...

Haley Hunt’s organization, which she started six years ago, focuses on mentoring and providing hope to young people in juvenile detention centers.

A state prison, a juvenile detention facility, three county jails and a federal detention center sit just outside the Border 2 fire’s evacuation zone. A single thoroughfare, Alta Road, connects the ...

A man accused of traveling to Edgewater to meet minors for sex was in a St. Johns County jail Friday on charges that included ...

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice is transferring incarcerated girls to the Ware Youth Center, with which the leader of the state office has a longstanding personal connection. Gov. John Bel ...

Thanks to her constant efforts, a Beijing grocery distribution center agreed to employ Ding Ding. On the day when he was freed, Liu and her colleague went to the prison to pick him up, telling him of ...

Child and civil rights advocates on Thursday railed against a proposed law, promoted by Gov. Jim Pillen, that would give prosecutors and judges new authority to put Nebraskans as young as 11 in ...

Gov. Jim Pillen and Nebraska law enforcement officials back a proposed law that would allow the state to jail children as young as 11 and file adult charges against 12-year-olds.

Philadelphia incarcerates a higher percentage of teenagers than any other major American city. Once in the system, kids are ...

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees ...

A Chester County teenager who stabbed his former best friend in a dispute over a girl they both knew pleaded guilty to ...