Sep. 17—Youths entering the criminal justice system and those with protective custody issues are often intermixed with adult offenders at the Juvenile Court of Glynn County, which shares a building ...

In a rare jury trial involving a juvenile defendant, Douglas County jurors on Wednesday acquitted a teenager of two counts of ...

A jury on Tuesday, June 17, found a former staffer at the Wayne County juvenile jail guilty of sexually assaulting two teens at the facility in a back room last year. Both youths, ages 16 and 17 at ...

Although it is greatly “underutilized,” the Napa County Juvenile Justice Center is serving its youths well as it focuses on rehabilitation instead of incarceration, the Napa County Grand Jury said ...

New Jersey isn't ready to join the nearly half the states in the union that allow juveniles facing criminal-type charges to have their cases heard by juries. As far as one Monmouth County judge is ...

Here’s an efficiency-improving recommendation for Napa County from the county grand jury – reduce juvenile hall staffing to match a dramatic reduction in incarceration levels over the past decade. Can ...

An Orleans Parish Juvenile Court judge wants the state Supreme Court to grant a jury trial for a 14-year-old charged with rape, saying that it is a fundamental right of anyone facing detention for ...

Should an eleven-year-old girl wear lipstick? Ten-year-old Buddy Robinson gave his considered answer: “No . . . because they look ridiculous.” Art Stone, 11, thought little girls who wore children’s ...

Juvenile Court Judge C. Hearn Taylor says that Louisiana teens accused of violent crimes should be able to rely on our country's bedrock document: the Constitution. "Juveniles charged with serious ...

The grand jury that investigated the abuse allegations at the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center has found that “the collective failure of many” allowed the detention center to function as a ...