The rising number of youth sent from counties like Tarrant is helping to push the waitlist for beds in youth prisons to near ...

A Tontitown man received 60 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to three counts of second-degree sexual assault ...

“The kids have much more educational time ... The number of youths held in Columbia’s detention center soared as Greenville ...

Three more staffers at a juvenile detention center in Brooklyn are accused of taking bribes to sneak in contraband to the ...

MONROE — A petition calls for changes in Connecticut juvenile crime law after Monroe police closed a decades-old homicide ...

The second accused, the girl’s mother from Thiruvananthapuram, allegedly aided, abetted and encouraged the abuse.

Jeff Kennett is among thousands of fed-up Victorians frustrated with the escalating crime crisis involving knives and machetes across Melbourne. Since a statewide ban on the weapons came into effect ...

Solitary confinement, or "the hole," is a costly and unregulated practice that violates human rights, increases mental health ...

Travis Laquan Chavis, 42, of Baldwin was arrested Wednesday by the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation on 12 counts of pornography involving juveniles.

Convicted felon incarcerated for failing to register his address Convicted sex offender Georgio N. Rochon, 38, is back behind ...

Sweden is preparing to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13, a controversial attempt to tackle gang violence. Could ...

Chris Masters, a special agent for the Louisiana Attorney General’s Cybercrime Unit, was among the law enforcement officials ...