There are late-breaking developments in our Project PA story we first brought you last week. Joshua Fromel is one of the thousands of vict...

An appeals court reprimanded a New Jersey court judge last month for refusing to try as an adult a 16-year-old boy accused of raping an into...

The crisis surrounding the treatment of WA’s unwanted children has deepened with revelations authorities are using the State’s only juvenile...

The crisis surrounding the treatment of WA’s unwanted children has deepened with revelations authorities are using the State’s only juveni...

In May 2016, James (not his real name), then 17, was sitting outside a mall in Arlington, Virginia, when police officers approached him. The...

In the absence of rules created following the passage of a 2012 law, city officials relied for years on internal rules for how to handle the...

After 16-year-old Kristyn failed a drug test and ran away from home, the state jailed her for more than six months. Her expected sentence wa...

A lawmaker who chairs the House Child and Family Law Committee said he was “blown away” to find out that the state bills parents who receive...

Manitoba’s children’s advocate is urging the province to stop lengthy solitary confinement of youth in custody after a review that found one...

Manitoba is taking a hard look at youth justice and its connection to child welfare after a study found more than half of kids incarcerated ...

"I've done nothing wrong," said a 14-year-old after she landed in jail for the fourth time. Many agree, and are trying to stop...

Four children and young people who were criminalised while living in residential care have told their stories in a new briefing published by...

In February, a Lincoln, Nebraska, mother of a 15-year-old student at Iowa's Clarinda Academy told police that a staff member assaulted h...

The number of youth incarcerated in the state’s juvenile detention centers for minor offenses dropped significantly between 2015 and 2017, p...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas asked the state judicial commission to investigate the actions of a Harris County judge who rele...

After losing his bench in a Democratic sweep, Harris County Juvenile Court Judge Glenn Devlin released nearly all of the youthful defendants...

The Simpson C. Penn School for Boys has implemented short and long-term security measures to ensure that there are no future breaches, said ...

The Florida State Reform School — more dungeon than deliverance for much of its 108-year history — has kept chilling secrets hidden behind r...

The last time Maine’s system for providing children with mental health services got a comprehensive look was in 1997. That’s when state of...

For nearly 2½ years, JaQuan Bradford — a boy with emotional and mental disabilities — was held in isolation by the Iowa Department of Hu...