A Dallas County Juvenile Department officer has been at Parkland Hospital since an April 7 incident involving a detainee.

Incarceration has lasting consequences. Many young people who have been incarcerated later struggle to achieve the basic ...

Lewis County files the vast majority of prison riot charges in the state, largely against young people incarcerated at the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Officials have revealed a new design for a proposed East Baton Rouge Parish juvenile detention facility. According to the councilman for District 5, Darryl Hurst, a task ...

The East Baton Rouge Juvenile Detention and Jail Task Force shared their initial design on a new Juvenile Detention ...

EBR leaders and officials introduced the layout of a new juvenile detention center that would offer new areas such as mental health areas, medical rooms and extra bed spaces.

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice confirmed Tuesday that its investigation uncovered sexual misconduct, fight clubs, and more at the Mayfield Youth Development Center in Graves County. Five ...

Newly reported numbers from Parish Administrator Erica Bryant show a slight rise in the number of juveniles in detention ...

The report from the state comptroller blames the Administration for Children’s Services for a raft of issues concerning ...

When the Herald-Leader asked about this, the department said it employs two ombudsmen for “monitoring and accountability ...

The last six months at the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice have shown that things aren’t getting better.

The overdoses come after a report from the Office of Inspector General found that room searches at the Downey facility are ...