Punishment provides immediate, visible results, while empowering youth requires patience, understanding and time.

Maryland’s insistence on being out of step with the rest of the country is long overdue for course correction.

Advocates have pushed for the detention center to reopen since it was closed in 2022. Despite broad agreement that a local facility would be beneficial, staffing challenges are the main barrier.

State plans to reform the juvenile justice system are moving forward. Officials this week approved $130 million in funding to ...

A one-cent sales tax to fund the project is expected to go before voters next summer. Read more about what’s being proposed ...

H. Lynn Hadnot (left), director of Dallas County Juvenile Services, laughs with juvenile detention officer Horace Bradshaw in the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, in Dallas ...

Fausto Lopez's journey to higher education took him from Riverside County juvenile facilities to a fire camp in Amador County ...

After a year of extensive examination, the Juvenile Justice Reform Collaborative, or JJRC, found that Guam's juvenile justice ...

While she’s new to the role, Betsy Fox Tolentino is no stranger to the juvenile justice system. Last week, Governor Wes Moore appointed her acting secretary of the Department of Juvenile Services (DJS ...

New Mexico lawmakers are set to tackle juvenile crime and health care in the upcoming 30-day legislative session, starting ...