Nelson Mandela wrote, “there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” As attorneys defending juveniles in criminal custody and immigrants facing ...

The result has highlighted a two-ton elephant of a question: How exactly do you promote, let alone hit, a target no one has come close to achieving, while at the same time constructing a $232 million ...

Is there ever a time when we should give up on a child? That is the question posed Wednesday by King County Executive Dow Constantine. He has earmarked $4 million in an effort of “refusal to accept ...

It's King County's white whale, a promise and a term batted around without much explanation of what it even means. Last September, King County Executive Dow Constantine received a comprehensive report ...

Awkward that there was yet another protest Tuesday against the premise of building a youth jail. “We’re here to tell Dow Constantine and all of King County, stop caging children!” went the cry during ...

As construction moves ahead on the new King County youth detention center at 12th and Alder in the Central District, anti-incarceration activists continue the fight against the controversial project.

The U.S. military is preparing to “house and care for” as many as 12,000 members of migrant families, an escalation of the Pentagon’s role in the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy that ...

As construction moves ahead on the new King County youth detention center at 12th and Alder in the Central District, anti-incarceration activists continue the fight against the controversial project.