FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — State police are looking for two teens who escaped from a juvenile detention center in Westmoreland County. Troopers say the escapees were teenage boys. One of the boys is 15 ...

MORGANTOWN, Pa — Nine teenagers who escaped from a detention center in Pennsylvania after overpowering staff and crawling under a fence were captured less than 12 hours later, state police said Monday ...

Relatives of four Ecuadorian boys, whose charred bodies were discovered near a military base, hold signs during a protest outside the Guayaquil Prosecutor's Office in Guayaquil, Ecuador on Tuesday.

While the number of children charged with crimes in Indiana has decreased since 2010, the number of Black youth being detained without conviction still remains high. Cameron Washington, 16, was one of ...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has reaffirmed his commitment to closing the state's largest youth detention center. The state attorney general has promised a prompt investigation into allegations of ...

For the growing number of teenage girls who are incarcerated each year, detention may be the only time they get health care. But the care provided to girls in juvenile detention is often a poor match ...

A judge rejected a mother’s plea to let her 13-year-old son — accused of sexually assaulting three children — come home with her Friday. The boy is one of two 13-year-olds who have been at the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MORGANTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Nine teenagers who ...