Maryland’s insistence on being out of step with the rest of the country is long overdue for course correction.

Maryland’s automatic charging laws are among the nation’s strictest. The state automatically charges 16- and 17-year-olds as ...

The class action suit claims five facilities under the State Office of Children and Family Services “routinely and unlawfully ...

The Legal Aid Society is demanding that the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) rectify what the group called a “ violation of fundamental rights” for children in custody at juvenile ...

The Boone County prosecuting attorney said the bills would make it easier to charge parents criminally and make juvenile ...

Advocates have pushed for the detention center to reopen since it was closed in 2022. Despite broad agreement that a local facility would be beneficial, staffing challenges are the main barrier.

Dallas County believes change is happening to improve juvenile detention. Unless they are overselling, it's the kind of modification that needs to happen. "In essence, we were taking kids who were not ...

The program's founder Pastor Jason David uses biblical stories that involve crime to show tools for better social and ...

One day after the superintendent of Knox County's juvenile detention center dismissed two key staff members, Richard Bean reversed course and reinstated both under pressure from Mayor Glenn Jacobs and ...