A Thurston County Superior Court judge told the state it has two weeks to return 43 young men it suddenly moved last Friday from the Green Hill School juvenile rehabilitation center to an adult ...

Late last month, the Texas Senate approved Senate Bill 1727, a proposal that prescribes harsher consequences, such as incarceration in adult prison, for juveniles accused of committing more than ...

While most of the focus at the Capitol during the special session has been on taxes, we were disappointed last week to see a crime bill that would potentially send more juveniles to adult prisons ...

“This would allow us, if we need to in the future, add more offenses that would be serious, violent and worthy of transfer to an adult court ... this could do to juvenile court.

Some youth in Maryland spend more than a year in adult jails before seeing their day in court. Without a fix, the state may ...

While, in some states, only those who commit violent crimes are affected, in others any felony is enough to have a 16-year-old thrown into prison with adult offenders. Our prison system has two goals: ...

But they’ll be an entirely separate population from the prison, overseen by a different agency. The soon-to-open Harbor ...

Forty-three men over the age of 21 were transferred Friday to adult prisons from the juvenile detention center they were sentenced to due to safety concerns from a “rapidly growing population ...

At its core, HB 1815 draws a clear line between adult prisons and juvenile detention centers. It changes state law so that facilities run by the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF ...