For more than a decade, Texas has been trying to slim down its youth prison system, which has been plagued by years of abuse scandals. This Legislature is reversing that course.

Juvenile justice officials say the facility is in much better condition than the Acadiana Center for Youth in St. Martinville, a state-run detention center and former adult jail that has served as ...

Juvenile justice officials say the facility is in much better condition than the Acadiana Center for Youth in St. Martinville, a state-run detention center and former adult jail that has served as ...

It was the council’s first time taking an official position on the future of the youth jail, four years after County Executive Dow Constantine called it a “system rooted in oppression” and ...

Within three years of release from DYS, about 43% of people either return to youth prison or enter the adult prison system. Employees and kids in these facilities are injured − sometimes ...

New allegations of MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility staff sexually abusing teens in custody are detailed in another lawsuit filed in a U.S. District Court last week.