Does sentencing a juvenile offender to life in prison violate the Constitution's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment"? The Supreme Court is set to consider that question. The court will hear ...

Outside the Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen, Wash., on Thursday, May 29, 2025, where a new juvenile detention center called Harbor Heights will soon ...

Nearly twenty years ago, the Odessa American introduced the community to a determined young man trekking across the state of Texas in a lawnmower to benefit St. Jude’s Ranch for Children. Now a ...

Conditions at the state’s largest juvenile prison – where young people have been locked in cells for hours and left to urinate in plastic bottles – violate state law, the Washington Court of Appeals ...

Louisiana’s state-run youth detention centers have reported significant decreases in assaults, something officials attribute to a new detention facility for particularly at-risk youth and enhanced ...

Officials with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, which runs the state's five juvenile prisons that house about 720 people between the ages of 10 and 19, echoed those concerns in recent testimony ...

When former juvenile lifer James Fuson was released from prison in 2022 after being incarcerated since age 16, he had no housing options. Two Hamtramck men, Jonathan Rajewski and Kyle Daniel-Bey, took ...

ABERDEEN — For the past few weeks, Kendrick Rochelle has been going to Washington’s overcrowded youth prison in Chehalis to build relationships with the young men held there. Rochelle is trying to ...