Construction is expected to start this spring on new, smaller youth prisons, which will allow the state to eventually close the larger Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility. The Ohio ...

CHEHALIS, Wash. — Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee wants to move offenders who committed their crimes as juveniles to a former adult prison housing unit. On Monday, Nov. 25 surrounded by legislators ...

ABERDEEN — For the past few weeks, Kendrick Rochelle has been going to Washington’s overcrowded youth prison in Chehalis to build relationships with the young men held there. Rochelle is trying to ...

A small state agency that serves as a watchdog over adult and juvenile prisons across Ohio is facing dramatic changes in the state budget bill. The Corrections Institution Inspection Committee and its ...

Lessons from a radical 20-year experiment and a quiet triumph of public policy. David Muhammad (center) teaching a session of the Healthy, Wealthy and Wise program in Oakland, Calif., for young people ...

The court-issued monitor for Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake released a report Friday on conditions at the notorious juvenile facilities. It was the monitor’s 22nd visit to the prisons, and revealed ...

New York is 1 of only 2 states that sends 16- and 17-year-olds to adult prisons. Now that's about to change. Late last night, Republicans who control the New York state Senate approved reforms that ...