By the time the girl was admitted to hospital, her hair was brittle, her skin was flaking, and she was so malnourished that ...

By the time the girl was admitted to hospital, her hair was brittle, her skin flaking, and she was so malnourished that doctors said she was at risk of cardiac arrest and death.

SB 2352 would let children live with their incarcerated mothers at the Heart River Correctional Center in Mandan. It also would give prison staff immunity from liability should the children be ...

Whether children get prosecuted as adults varies vastly from county to county in New Jersey. Human Rights Watch is calling ...

El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the ...

New Jersey has an "abusive and arbitrary" system that allows prosecutors to send children and teens to adult court, a new report says.

Edmund Davis, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of children in September after authorities discovered illicit material on his cellphone.

In a rare case of a parent being charged after a school shooting, a judge on Tuesday granted a $500,000 bond for the father of a 14-year-old boy accused of a deadly attack at a ...

Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel is accusing fellow judge and state Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford of "coddling criminals." ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is getting ready to ask private prison companies to bid for contracts to re-open family detention facilities.

That would be punishable by up to 10 years in prison. And the Border Force ... each month relating to threats posed to children online. It said 840,000 adults are a threat to children nationwide ...