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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Parents say they are going to send their children to school in skirts because teachers are refusing to allow the boys to wear shorts during the record-breaking heatwave. Parents at a number of schools ...

Three years into the Biden administration, the number of people held in ICE detention continues to grow, and private prison companies hold an increasingly tight grip on the mass immigration detention ...

Jan. 1 (UPI) --Four charred bodies found near an Ecuador military base were identified Tuesday as four boys who were last seen being forced into a military patrol car. A judge in Guayaquil ordered the ...