Officials point to recent progress: In the first half of this year, 59 inmates earned high school diplomas, a record number ...

Fifteen Washington residents who were previously incarcerated at the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center testified that ...

A man whose criminal case helped redefine juvenile justice in New Jersey left a Newark prison Friday after 25 years behind ...

Janice Buttrum was 17 years old when she was arrested in September 1980 in Whitfield County, Georgia, for murdering a 19-year-old woman with her older abusive husband. Georgia author Jodi McDaniel ...

This month, The New York Review of Books ran a two-part series of articles on rape and sexual abuse in American detention facilities. This problem, according to authors David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow ...

The Washington, D.C. Council unanimously approved a first vote of the Comprehensive Youth Adjustment Act of 2016 on Oct. 11, which would institute reforms to D.C.’s criminal justice system for ...

James Comer, the Newark native convicted of felony murder as a teenager who challenged his original 75-year sentence as “cruel and unusual punishment” and won a landmark ruling by the New Jersey ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An 18-year-old inmate who pleaded guilty to charges related to the death of a guard at a Wisconsin juvenile prison was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison. Rian Nyblom ...