A 2023 bill that paved the way for higher payments to counties that keep kids out of the justice system has increased the number of diversion...
Ohio youth prisons plagued by violence, chaos and neglect Ohio’s youth prisons are supposed to be safe places, where children get a chance to turn their...
What we know: Are school shooting threats taken seriously? The suspected Georgia high school shooter was investigated for online threats last year, but he was not...
A Milwaukee teenager charged in the death last year of 5-year-old Prince McCree will be tried as an adult. An attorney for Erik Mendoza, 16, on...
The teen girl was sleepy because she had no permanent spot to stay. But the Detroit judge who caught her nodding off in his courtroom wanted...
Six children, including a 9-year-old, have been criminally charged in connection to last month’s drowning death of a 15-year-old boy, police in Georgia announced Thursday. The...
Nicole D. Porter’s recent commentary correctly nailed why the terrible legislation on criminal “justice” recently passed in the Maryland General Assembly and fails to provide safety...
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. — A Delaware County man admitted trying to smuggle meth to his son through a small hole in a window at the Blackford County...
A teenager is in custody and facing murder charges following a shooting Friday afternoon in the city of Delaware that left one man dead. Delaware police...
Gov. Jeff Landry has been clear about everything in his criminal justice package — except how much his proposals could ultimately cost Louisiana taxpayers. At the...