Some states keep adding beds in already troubled facilities, while others are trying alternative approaches to detention or ...

A son is looking for answers after his father’s killer was resentenced. The county prosecutor says that decision was thanks ...

Fifteen Washington residents who were previously incarcerated at the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center testified that they were sexually abused by detention center guards in a lawsuit ...

Janice Buttrum was 17 years old when she was arrested in September 1980 in Whitfield County, Georgia, for murdering a 19-year-old woman with her older abusive husband. Georgia author Jodi McDaniel ...

Filed Thursday, the complaint alleges sexual abuse of eight formerly incarcerated youths, which one attorney calls a ...

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

This month, The New York Review of Books ran a two-part series of articles on rape and sexual abuse in American detention facilities. This problem, according to authors David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow ...

Officials point to recent progress: In the first half of this year, 59 inmates earned high school diplomas, a record number for the facility. But the convictions of Baker and Goodman have left ...