Connecticut was once a leader in gender-responsive strategies for incarcerated young women. Experts and advocates say it's ...

Certainly the circumstances of their life thus far, and some of the behaviors … put them at heightened risk for exploitation ...

An Orange County, California, mother has been arrested and charged with child endangerment and accessory after the fact to a ...

A privately operated youth treatment and foster home facility in rural Carroll County is facing renewed scrutiny after ...

Berks, Dauphin, Lackawanna and Lehigh counties will create the Southeast Youth Detention Agency, with Delaware County now ...

In Washington, judges appoint guardians ad litem (GALs) to investigate custody disputes, but concerns are rising about their ...

The roughly 50 incarcerated male teens are housed on the same campus as adults, likely violating federal protections, a ...

Lawmakers held a tense hearing Monday and investigators released new details about conditions inside the state’s secure ...

Last week, Toshiko Hasegawa and Rebecca Saldaña, the two leading candidates for King County Council’s District 2 seat, each ...

From southern Africa’s coasts to aquariums abroad, a new model of cross-border conservation is taking shape around one of the continent’s most threatened species, the African penguin. SPECIAL FEATURE ...

Objectives To determine the prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms among young people 7 years and 9 years after ...

A new report details the potential harms of probation for young people, from the perspectives of those with experience.