Nine more former detainees are accusing an ex-staffer at a Bronx juvenile detention center of sexually abusing them as children, according to an avalanche of lawsuits that city lawyers are trying to ...

Westmoreland County’s juvenile detention center, plagued for more than two years by staffing and other issues, may be getting ...

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

Search for an escaped juvenile in Carver County has ended without locating him; officials assure no public threat.

Despite a federal civil-rights investigation, problems continue at Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, a Herald-Leader investigation show.

On Sunday morning around 8:30 a.m., a Mankato teen escaped from custody at the Carver County Juvenile Detention Facility.

The Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Department says that laws related to juveniles are more restrictive than those for adults, so ...

A former Riverside County probation officer suspected of engaging in sex acts with a boy behind bars in Riverside Juvenile Hall was out of custody today. Cecilia Pulido, 42, of Moreno Valley was ...

An inmate is back in custody after being mistakenly dropped off at the Greyhound bus station in Baton Rouge on Friday, Jan.

Four people were arrested after law enforcement officers were notified of possible drug activity near Kensington Park ...

The Chaska Police Department has issued an alert over a juvenile inmate who is said to have escaped from custody Sunday ...