Nearly half of front-line staff at Washington’s overcrowded juvenile detention facilities leave within a year. Many report ...

Mississippi senators advanced a sweeping youth court reform package Tuesday night, clearing a key committee hurdle as ...

The government has decided to lower the age threshold for juvenile offenders exempt from criminal punishment, but only for those who commit serious crimes. The move strikes a compromise between a ...

LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A new plan to house juvenile offenders in Lackawanna County is now in motion. Lackawanna County Commissioners have unanimously approved to secure 10 beds at a juvenile ...

FAIRMONT, W.Va. (WBOY) — A registered sex offender in Marion County has been charged after a juvenile disclosed incidents of sexual assault. On Sept. 2, 2025, troopers with the Marion County ...

PROPOSED LEGISLATION. WHILE THE FEDERAL LAW THAT IS KNOWN AS MEGAN’S LAW, ALLOWS THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS IN PENNSYLVANIA’S VERSION, THAT ONLY APPLIES TO THOSE ...

Westmoreland County lawmakers called for significant changes to a state treatment program for former juvenile sex offenders who officials say are increasingly being released into local communities.

On the morning of October 3, 2012, a trio of unarmed 16- and 17-year-old boys in Elkhart, Indiana, banded together to commit a burglary in their neighborhood. To avoid a confrontation, they planned to ...

WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — First acts don't define a film, but they can make or break them. In the same sense, teenage mistakes don't set a life in stone — at least according to Frank Briones, youth ...