A class of former and current juvenile inmates housed with adults who say they are exposed to an increased risk of sexual and physical assaults argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday to revive their civil rights claims.
Read moreMade a lame duck by a Democratic takeover of Houston’s judiciary, a Republican juvenile court judge raised public safety concerns Wednesday when he released several youths from jail and reset their hearings for his replacement’s first week on the bench in January.
Read moreThe Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to write off nearly $90 million in fees imposed on thousands of families with children in the juvenile justice system — the largest such write-off in history.
Read moreSpurred to investigate reports that juvenile immigrants face systemic abuses at a jail in southwestern Virginia, state officials largely cleared the federally run detention center of wrongdoing.
Read moreThe Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 112-year sentence of a young man who shot 26 of his high school classmates after killing his parents in 1998.
Read moreAttuned to the risk that labeling a juvenile forever as a sex offender will stunt his rehabilitation, the New Jersey Supreme Court was unanimous Tuesday in curbing the landmark registry legislation known as Megan’s Law.
Read moreA federal judge in Michigan struck down a state law that took away good-behavior credits for inmates who were sentenced to life in prison as minors, before being resentenced to lengthy terms after the U.S. Supreme Court found life without parole unconstitutional for juveniles.
Read moreWisconsin approved an $18.9 million settlement Tuesday for the teen who suffered severe brain damage after trying to kill herself in a juvenile prison cell.
Read moreA federal lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association claims that Florida’s new law raising the legal age to purchase firearms imposes an “unequal and impermissible burden” on the constitutional rights of young adults.
Read moreBlack boys make up nearly half of all male juveniles in confinement despite the fact that less than 14 percent of minors in the U.S. are black, according to a report from a Massachusetts-based prison reform advocacy group.
Read moreThree disabled Kern County, California, teens claim in a federal class action that juvenile-detention staffers abused them with pepper spray, prolonged solitary confinement, excessive force, painful prone restraint holds and denial of education.
Read moreAuthorities are gathering evidence for a grand jury, hoping to discover why the 15-year-old suspect fired into a crowd of his classmates.
Read moreA 16-year-old was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy Wednesday after a fight broke out involving the boy’s family at the Franklin County Courthouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
Read moreA federal judge rejected the government’s argument Monday that it can delay, or prevent entirely, abortions for two unaccompanied immigrant teenagers in federal custody.
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Three juveniles claim in court that Iowa’s Boys State Training School violates the rights of offenders with mental health problems by providing grossly inadequate health care and subjecting them to physical restraints and solitary confinement.
Read moreThe federal government can’t ship immigrant minors suspected of gang involvement to far-off detention centers without giving them due process hearings first, a federal judge ruled this week.
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Prosecutors in Oregon on Thursday arraigned a 15-year-old boy accused of tossing firecrackers from a cliff on a popular hiking trail, starting a wildfire that devastated one of the nation’s scenic jewels.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Monday that Fox must face claims it was unjustly enriched by striking a deal with county officials to use a Chicago juvenile detention center as a set for the hit show “Empire,” forcing kids to sit in chairs for days at a time.
Read moreGovernor Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed a criminal justice reform package focused on reducing juvenile sentences and recidivism in California, drawing applause from civil rights groups and celebrity activists.
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Three Ohio men and one boy claim in a lawsuit against Cuyahoga County that they were repeatedly forced to participate in organized fights during their incarceration at a juvenile detention facility for the entertainment of guards.
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