A new report is highlighting the extremely high levels of childhood trauma among juveniles who are tried as adults and Illinois juvenile justice advocates – and those across the country – are calling ...

Exposure to violence and trauma is a widespread problem among youth and is associated with a number of adverse outcomes, including behavioral health problems and delinquent behaviors. Compared to ...

Grace, 15, remembers when a judge called her a junkie. Her lawyer and probation officer told her to keep quiet in the courtroom at the Scott D. Moore Juvenile Justice Center last July, but she ...

Louisville, is proposing legislation to establish a dedicated Juvenile Services Fund, as part of her ongoing work to ...

A new report touts some progress with New Mexico's juvenile justice system with fewer felony charges. However, over half of ...

Williamson County has launched a Multisystemic Therapy Program (MST) designed to help prevent youth from entering the ...

Imagine working in a factory where products on a conveyor belt with any minor defect are tossed prior to further inspection just because that is the policy. Instead of applying solutions or taking ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The recent history of ...

Each year, thousands of young people cycle through Virginia’s juvenile justice system. Many of these children are not just offenders, they are survivors. Studies show that a staggering number of ...

Since the early '90s, The Link, a north Minneapolis nonprofit, has been helping teens and keeping them out of the juvenile ...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Wednesday called on all stakeholders to enhance the implementation ...