A $0.01 sales tax in the nine parish Acadian area could provide enough funding to build a juvenile detention center, potentially reducing juvenile crime and giving kids the education and tools ...

RACINE, Wis. - A new Youth Care and Development Center in Racine will soon open its doors. It was the passion project of ...

Monday, the Woodward Board of County Commissioners approved a letter from Western Plains Youth and Family Services, Inc.

Vape prices could soon rise in Louisiana. A bill advancing at the Capitol would change how vape products are taxed—shifting ...

And only a small number of those were put in a detention center. But the juvenile justice veteran thinks it’s time to phase out that option. “The old scared-straight thing … that doesn’t ...

New allegations of MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility staff sexually abusing teens in custody are detailed in another ...

Text chat is also available online. New allegations of MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility staff sexually abusing teens in custody are detailed in another lawsuit filed in a U.S. District Court ...

Two local banks went belly up, Dorroh said. A push to diversify eventually brought a juvenile detention center run by Wackenhut Corrections Corp., which later became the GEO Group. It was billed ...

More than a dozen detention services officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of child endangerment and abuse, conspiracy, and battery.

For years, prosecutors have filed more prison riot charges against young people incarcerated at a state-run juvenile detention center in Chehalis than any other facility in Washington. Legal ...