The state is asking for an end to court monitoring of the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake schools in Lincoln County. The juvenile detention facilities were placed under a ‘consent decree’ by a federal ...

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Peterson ended mandated oversight of the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake youth prisons. A court-mandated monitoring program for the juvenile detention facilities ...

A youth incarcerated at a troubled state-run juvenile prison suffered a serious injury Monday in a fight. The Ohio Department of Youth Services, which operates the state's three youth prisons and ...

Proposed legislation in Kansas cracks open state guidelines to allow courts to sentence any kid deemed an offender to ...