El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the ...

Minors as young as 15 can already go to adult prison for an armed robbery ... are some of the most prevalent offenses that bring children into juvenile court. It makes it likely that many more ...

Whether children get prosecuted as adults varies vastly from county to county in New Jersey. Human Rights Watch is calling ...

A New Jersey law that allows prosecutors to unilaterally decide whether children are tried as adults is causing devastating ...

In 2016, Israel introduced a new law allowing children between the ages of 12 and 14 to be held criminally responsible, meaning they could be tried in court as adults and be given prison sentences.