Some states keep adding beds in already troubled facilities, while others are trying alternative approaches to detention or ...

The letters you sent, which they were juicy, they were things you’d see in a triple-x movie, and completely inappropriate.” ...

A former Kentucky teacher was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison for sexually abusing a student at a juvenile detention ...

Soane Mausia, 18, was shot and killed seven years ago, soon after he graduated from Skyline High School with a 4.0 GPA.

Gabriel "Snoop" Roberson, who has served decades in prison for a 1994 Antioch shooting, reached a plea agreement overturning ...

This month, The New York Review of Books ran a two-part series of articles on rape and sexual abuse in American detention facilities. This problem, according to authors David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow ...

Janice Buttrum was 17 years old when she was arrested in September 1980 in Whitfield County, Georgia, for murdering a 19-year-old woman with her older abusive husband. Georgia author Jodi McDaniel ...

A son is looking for answers after his father’s killer was resentenced. The county prosecutor says that decision was thanks ...

An Opelousas man has been found guilty of six counts of sex crimes against a juvenile. A St. Landry Parish jury on Thursday ...

ABERDEEN — For the past few weeks, Kendrick Rochelle has been going to Washington’s overcrowded youth prison in Chehalis to build relationships with the young men held there. Rochelle is trying to ...