Miami police say a group of boys took a 12-year-old girl to a community garden in the city’s Overtown neighborhood as one of them raped her for 30 minutes.

Local and state officials have been looking for a way to reopen Jail North with little progress. They have again come to an ...

Staff at the county juvenile detention center would physically and sexually abuse the children, then retaliate if they attempted to report it, the lawsuit alleges.

The former Schaffner Center, now known as LYFE, is owned by attorney and former Harrisburg School District Solicitor James Ellison.

Washington lawmakers reshaped civil law around childhood sexual abuse in 2024. The new statute removes the civil statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse that occurs on or after June 6, 2024, ...

A Vancouver law firm has filed a lawsuit on behalf of eight juveniles against Clark County, alleging staff at the county’s juvenile detention facility sexually abused detainees over the span of decade ...

Eight former inmates of Clark County Juvenile Justice Center have filed a lawsuit against the facility alleging sexual abuse by multiple staff members, spanning from 1978 to 2014, and are seeking ...

The civil lawsuit filed in Clark County Superior Court on Wednesday alleges children held at the facility were subject to repeated acts of rape, molestation, sexual exploitation, and retaliation at ...

A yearlong review by Disability Rights NC found stark differences among facilities, with some teens locked in their cells more than 22 hours a day.

Monitors with Disability Rights NC were so alarmed by what they found at a juvenile detention center in Madison County in ...

Despite an SC mandate to ensure dignity, care, and continuity of maternal bonds within confinement, a pan-India study finds ...

New York regulations generally restrict youth isolation and require additional approval when confinement extends beyond a day. A federal class-action lawsuit filed earlier this year alleges that a ...