Overcrowding in the state's juvenile and adult corrections facilities would be relieved under a plan from state Sen. Leonard Christian to house inmates at the state Capitol Campus and give Washington ...

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As the population grew over the summer, the state Department of Children, Youth and Families temporarily suspended intakes at Green Hill and Echo Glen’s Children’s Center in Snoqualmie, the state’s ...

64-year-old Sheila "Denise" Tenpenny was discovered beaten to death in her Fairfax home earlier this month. The parents of ...

An influential Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to be sent to adult prison for a slew of new crimes such as fentanyl ...

Juvenile crime came under intense scrutiny last year after two teenage boys were convicted of killing their classmate for ...

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

The plan would complete a Dane County youth facility, convert Lincoln Hills from juveniles to adults and renovate Waupun’s troubled prison.

“That’s why you have a whole juvenile justice system,” Livers said. “They don’t respond the same way to adult-type expectations.” Teens could face decades more of prison timeLast ...

the state’s medium and maximum security facilities for juvenile offenders. Around the same time, the state agency transferred 43 young men from Green Hill School in Chehalis to an adult prison ...