With the state’s juvenile justice facilities shutting down this Friday, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, a non-profit seeking to reduce incarceration, released a report today highlighting ...

Attorney Lashandra Peoples-Johnson provided an overview of how the justice system addresses crimes committed by minors in Oklahoma, outlining classifications, court processes, and potential outcomes.

The Impact of Adolescent Developmental & Brain Research on Juvenile Justice Reform. Major findings in developmental neuroscience over the past couple of decades have shed new light on our ...

PITTSBURGH — Allegheny County officials have responded to calls to reopen the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center amid continued juvenile violence throughout Pittsburgh. On Tuesday, the Allegheny County ...

Teenagers in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system are routinely being locked alone in their rooms for as much as 23 to 24 hours a day, according to an ongoing federal lawsuit and advocates for ...

December 4, 2025 - A new literacy intervention program is being rolled out in San Diego, Alameda, San Mateo and Riverside counties, to help teenagers in juvenile detention grasp the basics of reading.

In town halls and in conversations with community associations across Maryland over the past two years, citizens have expressed concern with the state of our juvenile justice system. Maryland ...

While our great state of Texas has made some remarkable reforms to the juvenile justice system, that progress has stalled over the last decade. The closure of nine youth prisons − the last of which ...

Juvenile offenders sit in chairs during g a group session at the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center, Dallas County's largest juvenile detention center. Louis DeLuca / Staff Photographer Dallas ...

CHARLOTTE — It’s no secret that kids are committing an overwhelming amount of violent crimes in Charlotte. Under Raise the Age, all criminal cases for suspects under the age of 18 start in juvenile ...

SHAWNEE, Kan. — For nearly a year, the KSHB 41 I-Team has been digging deeper into the juvenile justice system in Kansas. We found families who said it’s a broken system, a prosecutor who claimed it ...