Less than a year after a scathing report from the Department of Justice found that Texas juvenile prisons are rife with sexual and physical abuse, the state Legislature is considering sending more ...

A deeply partisan bill that aims to roll back harsh “prison riot” charges against juvenile offenders has now passed both chambers of the Washington State Legislature. The Senate approved House Bill ...

New York is 1 of only 2 states that sends 16- and 17-year-olds to adult prisons. Now that's about to change. Late last night, Republicans who control the New York state Senate approved reforms that ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In decisions widely hailed as milestones, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 and 2012 acted to curtail the use of mandatory life sentences for juveniles, accepting the argument that ...

Tarrant transferred 103 kids to state custody in the 2025 fiscal year that ended in August, jumping 63% from the period prior ...

The state might be allowed to transfer young men convicted of crimes as teenagers to serve the end of their sentences in ...

Nearly three years after parents sued state officials over holding juveniles in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a federal judge dismissed the class-action lawsuit. Brought by the parents of young ...

Does sentencing a juvenile offender to life in prison violate the Constitution's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment"? The Supreme Court is set to consider that question. The court will hear ...

Demiyah Robinson, a 16-year-old sophomore at Frederick Douglass High School in the Bywater, thinks local and state politicians need to do more to stop juvenile crime — but that doesn’t include locking ...

Shreveport Republican Senator Alan Seabaugh's bill that seeks to authorize district courts to handle felony cases involving juveniles aged 15 and older has been met with fierce opposition from critics ...