Our prison system has two goals: deterrence and rehabilitation. A system that carries tiny penalties will not serve the first function; one that carries extremely harsh penalties will not serve the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 banned the death penalty for offenders who committed their crimes as a juvenile, and in 2010 the court banned life in prison without parole for all juvenile ...

Six representatives from Philadelphia want to repeal Pennsylvania’s direct file law for violent crimes committed by juvenile ...

Detailed in the complaint are abuses allegedly suffered by the anonymous juvenile inmates at the hands of adult prison mates, including rape, the contraction of sexually transmitted diseases, solitary ...

Another juvenile case, for aggravated burglary, is still awaiting transfer to adult court. Trial dates have not yet been set for the prison arson and battery cases. To stream WWL TV on your phone ...

Amendment 3 could expand adult prosecution of minors, sparking debate over protections and public safety ahead of this week's election.

In 2016, the jail started housing adult inmates, whose population reached a high of 88, according to Carolynn Stocker, the ...

Inslee described an 'avalanche' of new juvenile offenders being sent to the ... were moved from Green Hill School in Chehalis to adult prisons, but shortly after the move, a Thurston County ...

The Montana Department of Corrections has announced that Pine Hills Correctional Facility in Miles City is back to a juvenile ...

Florida judges have the option to give teenage offenders “juvenile sanctions ... of Florida Corrections Department records show. Unlike Knight, all of them were adults when they committed ...

Serving time in an adult prison, with its more punitive approach ... system and introduced a civil citation program for juvenile offenders. “We make every effort to keep a case in the juvenile ...