“We’ve seen this story too many times,” Muhammad reflects. “A Black kid from Oakland with absentee parents and a juvenile record. It’s not supposed to end well, right?” But for ...

Juveniles in Ohio can no longer be sentenced to life in prison without parole, in most cases. Ohio joined 23 other states with similar bans a week ago, and ap THE VINDICATOR × ...

Pace now helps mentor incarcerated youth through the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project. One of those youths is 26-year-old ...

Overcrowding at Washington’s biggest juvenile detention center has grown to crisis levels over the past year. A slew of bills ...

Black juveniles are six times ... i.e., more children who will be arrested for non-criminal offenses and dumped into the school-to-prison pipeline. We’d be wise to heed the advice of the experts ...

more than 64,000 children and young adults 20 and younger are incarcerated in state prisons, local and tribal jails, and ...

which sends more youth to juvenile prison and the adult system than any other county, as highlighted in cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer’s six-week series, Delinquent: Our System, Our Kids.

the Department of Children, Youth and Families would run it, administering the rehabilitation programming that differentiates juvenile detention from prison. “It is one solution,” said Wilson ...

The last of three girls to admit to battering a children’s home employee during a breakout has been sentenced. Gabriala Peters, 17, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in the Indiana Department of ...