Maryland Public Defender advocates for childhood protection and criminal justice reform, highlighting the need for prevention and care over punishment.

Following his resignation as the interim director of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center, Brian Bivens said in a ...

Video released to the FOX 8 I-Team shows kids as young as 12 years old fighting with Cleveland police and even trying to grab ...

The lawsuits alleges Snohomish County was negligent regarding claimed abuse at the Denney Juvenile Justice Center.

The rising number of youth sent from counties like Tarrant is helping to push the waitlist for beds in youth prisons to near ...

Alameda County is implementing a literacy intervention program to address the lowest reading levels among high school ...

A new state commission is recommending Maryland end the practice of automatically charging youth as adults for certain crimes ...

Native children are also more likely to be returned to custody if they slip up, rather than being given an opportunity to ...

Kids at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center are getting the chance to learn how to play the guitar. It helps them take their minds off of what's going on and allows them to heal and have something ...

Arraignment was held Wednesday for the two children charged in the alleged sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in a Cleveland ...