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 ...

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.

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

Children may be housed in Allegheny County Jail longer than local leaders planned — as there is no firm timeline for ...

Serial juvenile car thieves could spend more time in prison than teenagers found guilty of rape in a Queensland led by David ...

Human Rights Watch has criticised Australia for its laws allowing children as young as 10 to be held criminally liable.