Cuyahoga County, with help from a $300,000 grant, plans to improve the ways it guides young people out of foster care and the juvenile-court system and into adulthood. The project, led by the county’s ...

Gainesville State School in North Texas is one of five secure Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities in the state. The units have struggled with staff shortages, allegations of physical and ...

After one of her first visits to L.A. County’s juvenile hall in Sylmar, Efty Sharony filed a report that said she witnessed conditions worse than anything she’d seen in “over 20 years of ...

When it comes to reducing juvenile crime in the state of Utah, and even more, preventing younger generations from entering into a lifestyle of criminal activity, a new informal working group focused ...

Despite efforts by medical personnel to save his life, the juvenile was pronounced dead at the scene. The North Las Vegas Police Department has launched a homicide investigation, with detectives ...

Police did not release the age of the juvenile and the case will be handled privately in the juvenile system. Police said they were initially able to deescalate a brawl in the men’s bathroom at ...

House lawmakers cheered, jumped to their feet and embraced as the clock struck midnight on a critical legislative deadline, delegating hundreds of House bills to the shredder early Friday after a ...

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Among the roughly 200 proposals that landed in the scrap pile were: a bill addressing unconstitutional conditions at Texas’ juvenile detention centers; a pair of measures related to imported ...

“That was my first time losing it. They put her in shackles and took her to the juvenile detention center. It was a scene. I was hysterical. I was yelling at the probation officer. I was yelling ...