A circuit judge was wrong in requiring that a teenaged juvenile pay for some of the damage caused inside a vacant trailer home in Pennington County by a large firework that another teenaged juvenile ...

Chester, announced this week that her third juvenile justice reform bill, House Bill 1573, has passed the Pennsylvania House ...

In response, less than halfway into his term, 317th District Civil Court Judge Gordon Friesz created FORM — First-time ...

Over recent decades we’ve moved toward a much more effective and humane system to deal with youth crime. Evidence and ...

Two more bills that came out of recommendations from Pennsylvania’s 2021 Juvenile Justice Task Force have passed the House with bipartisan support this week. House Bill 1576 would require the state to ...

Do we just need more space or less detention? Different views on the way forward as police and justice activists seek solutions.

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers. That's according to ...

A 13-year-old girl was arrested by police on Friday in connection with an attempted armed robbery inside a Baltimore liquor ...

In his two and a half years as Bernalillo County District Attorney, Sam Bregman said his office has linked 70 different ...

A Virginia task force is moving forward on a plan to build a new youth prison in Chesapeake as part of a plan to transform the state juvenile justice system, ...

The Maryland General Assembly, in 2022, passed the Juvenile Justice Reform Bill, which, in part, raised the minimum age at ...

Demanding action from state lawmakers, prosecutors and New Mexico’s top law enforcement leaders say the time is now to change ...