Adolescents in the US face significant barriers to accessing effective drug treatment, with only 31% of children ages 12-17 ...

As it struggles with a recent spike in serious crimes committed by juveniles, Atlantic County has gone to court to address what it deems a crisis in the housing of young people charged with criminal ...

Proposed legislation in Kansas cracks open state guidelines to allow courts to sentence any kid deemed an offender to juvenile prison, reversing a decade-old effort to treat youth incarceration as a ...

L.A. County's Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar is shown in 2022. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) A woman was arrested on suspicion of attempting to bring fentanyl into a Los Angeles ...

The juvenile justice system is designed for rehabilitation. Punishment takes a backseat to programs, and judges tend to look upon their dockets with compassion for the complex social issues that give ...

Kids at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center are getting the chance to learn how to play the guitar. It helps them take their minds off of what's going on and allows them to heal and have something ...

Officers at a juvenile detention center in Dallas kept kids isolated for days and falsified logs of observation checks and school attendance, an investigation from the Texas Juvenile Justice ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new federal report has ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Sprucing up the city is no easy feat in Wilkes-Barre. Even with heavy lifting, many hands from Luzerne County's Juvenile Probation system made light work on Wednesday. Kids getting ...

Some teenagers being held at the Juvenile Detention Center in downtown Minneapolis were locked in their rooms for prolonged periods of time. Recreational and rehabilitative program time were canceled.