As Maryland’s secretary of juvenile services, Vincent Schiraldi exposed a history of torture, neglect and Black boys buried ...

A man whose criminal case helped redefine juvenile justice in New Jersey left a Newark prison Friday after 25 years behind ...

Experts say the criminal justice system wasn't built for defendants this young, as Cuyahoga County grapples with a disturbing ...

President Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks at the White House on Friday. The U.S ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he is troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the ...

Mark Ford, extradited from Indiana to New Orleans jail, faces life in prison if convicted of sexual abuse charges.

A federal judge issued the emergency order after federal agencies on Friday started issuing layoff notices aimed at reducing the size of the federal government.

After nearly four years of tumult at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, culminating in a summer that included a jailbreak, ...

Justice Through Journalism. Subscribe to their newsletter here. In the hours after 17-year-old David was locked in housing ...

There’s disagreement on how to proceed. Sheriff Garry McFadden shut it down in 2022 so he could move staff to the adult jail.

A $50 million project to reshape Minnehaha County's Juvenile Detention Center is nearing a crucial step in a plan to create a ...

The occasion for meeting with a half-dozen young people incarcerated at the Echo Glen Children’s Center was a book club. They were reading “Wards of the State,” my book about the overlap between ...