“Blended sentencing,” which took effect at the start of the year, allows prosecutors to try some youth as “serious youth ...
By JACK KELLY and HALLIE CLAFLIN This story was produced and originally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, ...
Gov. Tony Evers this week will propose a significant overhaul of Wisconsin’s corrections system, pushing a plan that would ...
The plan would complete a Dane County youth facility, convert Lincoln Hills from juveniles to adults and renovate Waupun’s troubled prison.
As the state House of Representatives prepares to take up a crime package as early as Saturday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is expressing her support but calling on lawmakers to do more to improve ...
Lujan Grisham is hoping at least 10 other public safety bills reach her desk, though Capitol insiders predict some of them ...
Over 700 incarcerated people in Washington state prisons are serving additional time for crimes they committed as minors. If ...
Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman has been rallying lawmakers to pass sweeping juvenile justice reform since ...
El Salvador's Congress passed a controversial measure allowing minors involved in organized crime to be housed with adults, albeit separately. This move aligns with President Nayib Bukele's aggressive ...
El Salvador's Congress approved a reform allowing minors convicted of organized crime to be imprisoned alongside adults in separate areas. The decision follows a crackdown on crime involving mass ...
Mario Monteiro sat down with me to talk about how he spent 23 years in prison for a murder he committed when he was 17 in Providence.
New Jersey has an "abusive and arbitrary" system that allows prosecutors to send children and teens to adult court, a new report says.