Members of Leadership Sherman held a ribbon-cutting on Thursday afternoon for new updates to the Grayson County Juvenile ...

Texas lawmakers push over 100 bills to increase criminal penalties, potentially leading to overcrowding of state's jails and prisons.

Two teenage girls were arrested for plotting a pipe bomb attack at Memorial High School, highlighting a 1,200% rise in ...

In the Houston area this past fall, there was a surprising increase in the number of middle school and high school-age ...

A trial for Demaurion Moore starts Wednesday, where he will argue his innocence on charges from a 2022 riot at the Adair ...

Violent crime involving teenagers is a trend we've seen in our reporting for years now. Sadly, that trend is on the rise.

Djovani Jean-Pierre spent his 17th birthday in a small county jail in rural northern Alabama, where he has languished for ...

Bexar County Center for Health Care Services awarded more than $1 million for mental health services to kids who have entered ...

FIEL, an immigrant rights group, detailed cases where Houston residents were detained by ICE and U.S Customs and Border ...

Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu criticized the department for treating an August 2024 federal report as “nothing.” ...

According to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, in 2023, it experienced the worst staffing crisis in its history.

As the system weighs incarceration vs. rehabilitation, experts say patchwork of strategies leave gaps in the bars for ...