The truce that began nearly four weeks ago had been jeopardized in recent days by a tense dispute that threatened to renew ...

The bill also requires designated housing arrangements for juvenile inmates based on sex ... For example, a trans female minor being housed with just young males. I think that presents a meaningful ...

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — It's Valentines Day, and one local chocolate shop is finding a way to bring sweetness into peoples' lives.

Blount Co. Juvenile Court Judge Kenlyn Foster ordered the case of Maddex Forsythe, charged with murder in the death of ...

Over 700 incarcerated people in Washington state prisons are serving additional time for crimes they committed as minors. If ...

A commission has recommended grants be awarded to several juvenile jails, including one in East Baton Rouge Parish and one in ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

A bill in the Kentucky legislature would require the state's prisons to designate bathrooms, sleeping quarters and other areas by biological sex.

A three-day hearing ended Wednesday after a motion from the suspect in a deadly attack at Lincoln Hills to have his case ...

There’s language in the Arkansas Constitution that has exceptions for slavery or involuntary servitude, but a bill recently filed in the Arkansas House is looking to erase that.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...