The new consent decree ends five years of litigation, installs independent oversight of juvenile jail staff and ends solitary confinement as punishment on children. A group of Nelson Mullins lawyers ...

More than 900 people have now come forward charging they were sexually abused at state-operated Illinois youth centers and the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. Attorneys on Wednesday ...

Another 107 people filed complaints Tuesday against the state for allegedly allowing rampant sexual abuse in Illinois juvenile detention facilities, joining 800 other alleged victims who have filed a ...

More than 350 people have sued New Jersey for sex abuse they say they suffered in juvenile detention facilities. Some want the jails closed. (Photo by iStock/Getty Images Plus) People who said they ...

A security guard at the Kissimmee Youth Academy was arrested after a “physical altercation” with a 15-year-old juvenile ...

TULSA COUNTY, Okla. — The Tulsa County Juvenile Justice Center is still trying to move forward almost exactly a year after a police raid uncovered abuse and harassment of kids held at the facility. At ...

Six former inmates of Essex County Juvenile Detention Center filed a joint lawsuit, which claims the county's negligence permitted ― if not engendered ― the decades-long pattern of sexual abuse they ...

A Juvenile Probation Detention Officer in El Paso, Texas, was arrested after being caught with cocaine in a secure area of a ...

Nearly 1,000 lawsuits have been filed alleging sexual and emotional abuse by staff at Illinois Youth Centers and the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, with 107 new cases filed this week ...