Governor Tina Kotek has placed the director of the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA), on administrative leave effective immediately.

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

An 8,000-square-foot building on Sweeter's Saco campus could be the treatment facility's new home for patients under 21.

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

The changes were made Thursday in the wake of an executive order Trump signed calling for the federal government to define ...

We thought the best way to get into the conversation was to bypass all of the stereotypical conversations that people imagine having with people serving long-term sentences and really dive into ...

In response to questions from The Oregonian/OregonLive, a youth authority spokesperson said the review of the agency’s ...