Tayvon Erwin-Morrison led a planned, group escape from a Lincoln youth detention center last summer after learning a Douglas ...

A group of parishes along the Mississippi River is seeking more than $36 million in state funds to create a juvenile jail on ...

Colorado’s Division of Youth Services, which oversees the state’s 14 youth detention and commitment facilities, had not ...

Apart from codifying the rights of children in custody, the legislature should hold hearings this winter where state ...

It is the second time in just over two years that pipes have frozen and burst at the former Berks County Youth Detention ...

Two state agencies with authority over Illinois juvenile detention center operations have given the Cook County Juvenile ...

A correctional captain at the McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center was fired after reports state he broke two boys' ...

Bernalillo County's juvenile detention center is facing maximum capacity. Tara Marcantel, the director of the Bernalillo County Youth Service Center, said 68 out of 78 beds are filled. District ...

Commissioners are concerned over the increase in length of stay and the racial disparities in DCYC's latest report.

The state’s largest facility for youth offenders remains over capacity, with one legislator describing the situation at the ...

The Adams administration is trying to dismiss older sex abuse cases by citing a court decision involving Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Teens arrested in Sangamon County will once again be held in the area after the Juvenile Detention Center reopened. Here's ...