During Monday’s Caddo Parish Commission work session, newly reported numbers show a significant decrease in juvenile detention numbers since March 17. Parish Administrator Erica Bryant shared the ...

State lawmakers said they were "heated" and "frustrated" as they grilled the director of the Department of Juvenile Justice ...

The pair had the two highest portions of the vote, with Jenny Richardson Fore earning 42% and Jessica C. Ledet earning 31% of ...

After the recent stabbing incident at KISD, many are raising questions about how children face legal punishment.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that because of flawed legal reasoning from lower courts, a juvenile judge must reconsider ...

Three Republican women are vying for the 21st Judicial District Court juvenile judge spot to replace Judge Blair D. Edwards ...

A 60-year-old man who worked as a correctional officer was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl held ...

A bill making its way through the state legislature would force Shelby County Juvenile Courts to use the hearing room within ...

Louisiana voters go to the polls today to consider substantially stiffening juvenile justice laws. The proposal, constitutional Amendment 3, would give state lawmakers new leeway to send teenagers to ...

The Opportunity Center in southwest Houston is designed to help high school-aged students turn their lives around.

the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention notes on its website that the juvenile court system also was established to provide positive social development ...

The five-month-old case involves a minor girl who went missing from her village on October 4 last last year. A 'missing person' report was initially filed, and after her return on October 8, gang ...