The panel tackled — and ultimately advanced — criminal justice bills related to veteran post-conviction relief and juvenile ...

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

Children are not safe in custody at the troubled Knox County juvenile detention center, the former interim superintendent of ...

Two brothers with a special immigration status for abused, abandoned or neglected unaccompanied minors must be released from a Virginia ICE detention facility, a judge has ruled.

A 14-year-old will be in juvenile detention until he's 21 after admitting to murdering his 64-year-old neighbor earlier this ...

Sheriff Garry McFadden previously said he has a plan to reopen it, though the state says that plan isn’t realistic.

A Chicago man has been charged with child pornography after allegedly asking a juvenile to send explicit images through ...

Police arrested a 15-year-old and three other juveniles Saturday who they said attacked and robbed five people at the Towson ...

Newly released, a Gary teen is slowly getting back to daily life after his family was upended in an immigration raid last ...

Brian Bivens, a former KCSO administrator, started July 1. He took over for longtime center leader Richard Bean, who left ...