Nell Bernstein, a leading voice on youth incarceration, discusses the failures of the juvenile punishment model, the ...

Juvenile correction staff allowed a teenager with a history of suicide attempts to drink bleach and locked him in solitary confinement for days at a time, according to a new federal lawsuit detailing ...

Louisiana’s state-run youth detention centers have reported significant decreases in assaults, something officials attribute to a new detention facility for particularly at-risk youth and enhanced ...

— -- WASHINGTON - Juveniles convicted of murder can't be automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 5-4 ruling, involving two 14-year ...

Conditions at the state’s largest juvenile prison – where young people have been locked in cells for hours and left to urinate in plastic bottles – violate state law, the Washington Court of Appeals ...

Less than a year after a scathing report from the Department of Justice found that Texas juvenile prisons are rife with sexual and physical abuse, the state Legislature is considering sending more ...

Trevor Relerford, 51, who served decades for a 1989 murder, struck a Michigan State Police vehicle while intoxicated with a ...

Solitary confinement, or "the hole," is a costly and unregulated practice that violates human rights, increases mental health ...

Do you believe that people who have committed crimes can be rehabilitated?This is a question that workers in Japan's prisons ...