Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland. (Photo by Eesha Pendharkar/ Maine Morning Star) Frankie Bachelder first ...

More than a decade ago, I walked into the Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Los Angeles County to gather data for a lawsuit related to their “failure to provide an adequate education to detained ...

The Center for Youth Justice (CYJ) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy launched the Forgotten Children Initiative, an organization founded to honor deceased incarcerated ...

The Shelby County Youth Justice and Education Center in November 2025. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 Advocates are asking for a citizen review board to ...

Jerri Green, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and director of the Shelby County Department of Corrections Anthony Alexander ...

The troubled center has been in flux since Richard Bean was pushed to retire. A plan with lots of oversight has come into focus.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A five-year lawsuit over conditions at Charleston County’s juvenile detention center has resulted in a federal consent decree that attorneys say could reshape juvenile ...

The Maryland Department of Juvenile Services was awarded a $200,000 grant to begin searching for the remains of hundreds of boys in the woods near the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center, the first step ...

The lack of heat at the Baltimore Youth Detention Center has intensified calls to end the practice of automatically charging some children as adults. Maryland Public Defender Natasha Dartigue, ...

Lawmakers in Maryland debate the Youth Charging Reform Act, creating a clash between rehabilitation-focused reformers and prosecutors concerned about public safety.

H. Lynn Hadnot (left), director of Dallas County Juvenile Services, laughs with juvenile detention officer Horace Bradshaw in the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, in Dallas ...