At least 20 L.A. County probation officers have been indicted as part of a criminal investigation launched by the California ...

The Los Angeles County Probation Department wants to close two more juvenile facilities and shuffle dozens of youth across its footprint in an effort to consolidate staff and further reduce the ...

A group of Mississippi River parishes is seeking more than $36 million in state money to build a juvenile jail on land owned by Lafourche Parish. The proposal for a 56-bed lockup follows the state ...

SYLMAR, LOS ANGELES -- A California utility said Thursday that its equipment may have sparked a small wildfire in Los Angeles that broke out the same day as two massive blazes in the area killed ...

Instead of being processed in juvenile court — with a menu of options including diversion and juvenile probation — they faced criminal trials and up to 20 years in state prison. One morning last ...

The beefy 5-foot, 11-inch juvenile justice guard allegedly boasted ... No criminal charges have been filed against Lynn, according to public court records. In an interview with the Herald-Leader ...

Journalists can now report from family courts in England and Wales in what the UK's most senior family judge has called a "watershed" change. From Monday, accredited journalists can speak to ...

The Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center’s vacant areas will be partially filled due to a new deal with the state for it to take in juvenile residents from a northern Michigan facility that ...

A former Riverside County probation officer was arrested Friday on suspicion of a sexual relationship with a juvenile inmate. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release ...

Superior Court Judge Miguel Espinoza punted a decision on whether to order Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall closed, seemingly swayed by having no good alternatives for where the roughly 230 youths ...