Stone walls do not a prison make,” said Richard Lovelace in his poem “To Althea, From Prison.” But they do come in handy. But ...

For the past few weeks, Kendrick Rochelle has been going to Washington’s overcrowded youth prison in Chehalis to build ...

GRAYS HARBOR, Wash. — The state plans on moving eight men, convicted of crimes as juveniles, into a former solitary ...

Tennessee’s Supreme Court ruled the state’s mandatory life sentences for juveniles were unconstitutional. The state ...

The state plans on moving eight men, convicted of crimes as juveniles, into a former solitary confinement unit at a state ...

Within three years of leaving a state youth prison, four in 10 return to either the juvenile or adult prison system and those who don't return to prison face a higher likelihood of dying an early ...

On any given day, more than 50,000 young offenders are locked away from ... America’s youth prisons are based on the adult correctional model of incarceration: control and coercion with a ...

Mike DeWine's juvenile justice working group on Tuesday ... The committee is a bipartisan panel of legislators that have oversight of the state's adult and youth prisons. DeWine's task force will meet ...

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: ...

(The Center Square) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for closing another prison as part of his newly revised budget proposal. If that happened, it would be the fifth state prison that was ...

Michele Deitch, who directs the LBJ School’s Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said Senate Bill 1727 concerns her. “It would transfer more youth from the juvenile ...

The measures will apply to prisoners serving one to four-year sentences, including sex offenders ... just over four out of 10 adult prisons were rated as of “concern” or “serious concern ...