State Attorney Monique Worrell highlighted staffing and funding challenges, and renewed calls for legislative changes to ...

Travis Porter was arrested twice for domestic violence, but not sent to jail, in months before facing new felony charge of ...

There’s disagreement on how to proceed. Sheriff Garry McFadden shut it down in 2022 so he could move staff to the adult jail.

As Maryland’s secretary of juvenile services, Vincent Schiraldi exposed a history of torture, neglect and Black boys buried ...

The Department of Justice has filed charges against two people from Michigan ... ammunition would be used to commit a Federal crime of terrorism,” according to the criminal complaint unsealed on ...

The bills would require judges to refer some students to diversion programs instead of detention and eliminate most fines and ...

The court said that the JJ Act has not classified or defined the offences for which punishment under any statute is imprisonment for more than 07 years, but no mandatory minimum punishment of ...

Kerala University's new admission directive conflicts with the Juvenile Justice Act, sparking concern among child rights activists and parents.

A 5-year-old girl was assaulted by other children, and a 9-year-old and a 10-year-old are facing serious charges. The case ...

Placing reliance on erstwhile Section 19 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 which is almost identical to Section 24 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of ...

Report finds Baltimore's youth diversion program SideStep has rising recidivism rates and faces data access disputes.

CHEHALIS, Wash — In the predawn hours one morning in April 2024, a guard at Washington's most secure juvenile detention ...