In Pennsylvania, all counties do offer diversion of some kind. And the vast majority of first-time juvenile offenders – more ...

Some 1,040 youth were enrolled in Passages Academy, the education program for students charged or found responsible for a ...

After decades of bipartisan reforms that prioritized rehabilitation over punishment, states are moving back toward ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maryland’s juvenile justice commission recommended ending the state’s practice of automatically charging children as adults ...

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

Knox County Sheriff Tom Spangler volunteered to run the troubled Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center. But he's only ...

The India Justice Report (IJR) released a report titled ‘Juvenile Justice and Children in Conflict with the Law: A Study of ...