A staff member was attacked at the Oklahoma Juvenile Authority facility in Tecumseh on Tuesday night, police said.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Children are being locked in solitary confinement at a Tennessee juvenile detention center under conditions that experts say could amount to torture. The Tennessee Department of ...

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 ...

Some folks in the state of Washington are wondering if Becca’s Law might be doing more harm than good and I tend to think it is. If you’re not familiar, Becca’s Law essentially lets judges in ...

SPRINGFIELD — In more than two decades as a juvenile probation officer in downstate Clinton County, Carla Stalnaker said barely a handful of children younger than 12 have found themselves in her ...

State lawmakers have moved a proposal to standardize and expand programs that divert children to alternatives to the criminal ...

On Saturday, a juvenile detention officer was brutally attacked inside the Smith County Juvenile Detention Center— now, ...

Aurora Peña, left, and Camarah Brown, right, pose with Dawson, a shelter dog in the program who’s available for adoption. At the Fort Bend County Juvenile Detention Center, a kennel sits on the edge ...