At the state's long-troubled juvenile detention center in Adair County, recently called "a nightmare for its kids" in a pending whistle-blower lawsuit, youths sometimes ask to remain in their cells ...

Conditions at the state’s largest juvenile prison – where young people have been locked in cells for hours and left to urinate in plastic bottles – violate state law, the Washington Court of Appeals ...

FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio — The teenager in the padded smock sat in his solitary confinement cell here in this state’s most secure juvenile prison and screamed obscenities. The youth, Donald, a ...

Green Hill School in Chehalis in 2024. Prison riot offenses are regularly filed against youth at Green Hill School, a juvenile rehabilitation facility in Chehalis which has been overcapacity for the ...

In and out of juvenile detention since age 11, Curtis Tassin earned the jailhouse nickname “Houdini” after three bold escapes from three different lockups. But those brazen breakouts were just the ...

A Pinellas County Juvenile Justice Detention officer was arrested for child abuse on Wednesday, according to PCSO. PCSO says Anthony Sandora, 60, beat up a 15-year-old inmate after finding the ...

In imposing the adult sentence in September 2024, Dellick said Thomas will serve five years of post release control when he leaves adult prison. She gave him credit against his sentence for the ...

When former juvenile lifer James Fuson was released from prison in 2022 after being incarcerated since age 16, he had no housing options. Two Hamtramck men, Jonathan Rajewski and Kyle Daniel-Bey, took ...

Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration plans to reopen the Jetson Center for Youth in Baker (pictured above) later this year. The juvenile justice facility was shut down over a decade ago. (Julie ...

Two young men who were housed at the Green Hill School juvenile detention center in Chehalis claim they were left to urinate in plastic receptacles in their cells amid overcrowding. The petitioners’ ...