Officers had allowed and in some cases encouraged fights between teens being held at a detention center in Downey, Calif., ...

A lawsuit filed Tuesday against DJS alleges that a former employee sexually abused dozens of children at a facility in ...

The man accused in a recent civil lawsuit of sexually abusing dozens of youth at one of Maryland’s juvenile detention ...

Sixty-nine men have filed a lawsuit that alleges a staff member at a state-run juvenile detention facility in Baltimore County sexually abused them when they were children as the government looked the ...

Educational records for youth detained by St. Louis County will use “Summit Academy” starting July 1. The goal is to address the “implicit bias” that follows kids who’ve had a ...

Capt. Tyler Lynn and two top juvenile detention administrators were fired after two violent incidents last Oct. 12 in Paducah ...

The old courthouse and detention center have been empty since 2011. Razing them will eliminate blight and make way for changes to the Innerbelt freeway.

Violent crime involving teenagers is a trend we've seen in our reporting for years now. Sadly, that trend is on the rise.

Staff at James G. Bowles Juvenile Hall made considerable progress toward fulfilling the recommendations of a Kern County grand jury report from last March, according to an update issued Monday by the ...

Former Captain Tyler Lynn is facing charges from two incidents in the same day, both ending in him breaking the arms of ...

Dozens of officers at a juvenile detention center are being charged for facilitating "gladiator fights" between youth ...

An indictment reveals that 69 fights, involving 143 victims aged 12 to 18, occurred at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall between July and December 2023, with officers allegedly overseeing the violence.