The inmate population at Westmoreland County Prison has swelled to its highest numbers this decade, prompting officials to ...

A woman was charged in Harrison County deputies found messages about buying and selling drugs on a child's tablet.

That case has some calling for a change to the criteria the county uses to decide if teens should be taken off the streets ...

FORREST COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - The Forrest County Juvenile Detention Center is a place where its officers say “hope meets ...

Monday, the Woodward Board of County Commissioners approved a letter from Western Plains Youth and Family Services, Inc.

A rise in juvenile detentions threatens to undermine decades of effort to undo the increases seen during the 1990s, when ...

Los Angeles County officials on Tuesday approved a $4 billion payout to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959. The agreement reached on ...

A Dallas County Juvenile Department officer has been at Parkland Hospital since an April 7 incident involving a detainee.

WOODWARD, Okla. — Woodward County commissioners approved a letter from Western Plains Youth and Family Services Inc., terminating its contract to operate Woodward County Juvenile Detention Center.

The South Iowa Area Detention Service Agency will now house Washington County’s detained juveniles after officials said the facility in ...

The YDCC replaces Racine County’s current juvenile detention center, located inside the Dennis Kornwolf Service Center at 1717 Taylor Ave. in Racine. The new facility includes 48 beds and is ...