The Juvenile Detention Center in Sangamon County's East Complex in Springfield reopened late last month, 15 months after a teenager brandishing a gun was fatally shot by responding Springfield Police.

The matter is moving to appellate court, where the state and Atlantic County will continue to spar over who is responsible for finding housing for young people being held in juvenile detention.

A new wave of sexual assault complaints has been levied against the City of New York, bringing the total number of alleged assaults in juvenile detention centers to 539 cases. On Tuesday, 115 former ...

A sign and fence at the Green Hill School for juvenile offenders, in Chehalis, Washington. (Photo by Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard) Overcrowding at ...

Dozens of sexual assault complaints were filed against the city’s troubled juvenile detention facilities this week, bringing the total number of claims to a shocking 539. The 115 new alleged ...

A Georgia Senate bill would allow cases involving children ages 13 to 17 making threats to be seen in superior court for ...

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 ...

On Thursday, former Haralson County Detention Officer Jade Lee Pike pled guilty to violation of oath of office and theft by taking. The charges stem from a 2021 investigation. Officials said an ...

The county is facing lawsuits by at least two dozen people who say they were sexually assaulted as children and teens by probation officers while confined in the county’s juvenile detention ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Dozens more victims have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted while in juvenile correction centers run by the state of Illinois and Cook County. More than 100 new ...

The executive director of KYA told WAVE News he’d like to see two major changes in the state’s juvenile justice system. First, he said, specific protocols and practices need to be established in every ...

Hot Sydney 'it' couple Katie Williams and Georgia Hull have announced their shock split just days before their wedding. The pair, who got engaged in February last year, were scheduled to tie ...