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 ...

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 ...

Some 600 minors are in juvenile prisons across Italy, a record rise of 54% in two years, prisoners' rights association ...

Teenagers sentenced to probation for adult crimes in Pima County are more than twice as likely than older offenders to get into trouble again and wind up in prison. Forty-seven percent of ...

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: ...

Joshua was incarcerated because of a series of offenses committed at age 11. First, he got into a fight with his older ...

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 ...

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

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

Senate Bill 1727 aims to keep the juvenile justice workers and the public safe from violent criminals who happen to be younger than 17. But many of the ...