A new policy requires the fingerprinting of all adults who will be living with a migrant child in the United States.

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 ...

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.

Pace now helps mentor incarcerated youth through the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project. One of those youths is 26-year-old ...

Investigators say Harrison placed two children, ages 5 and 4, into a bathtub of excessively hot water, refusing to adjust the ...