A new federal lawsuit is accusing New York state of unlawfully placing children in solitary confinement and denying them basic services inside juvenile detention facilities, including Goshen youth ...

The Montgomery County Juvenile Justice Center looks like a cross between a concrete-block, 1970s-style college dorm and a high school — with heavy security. Staff buzz through intercoms to unlock ...

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The Sam Bernstein Law Firm filed a civil rights lawsuit Monday in federal court on behalf of Rashard Calhoun, a former ...

Gov. Andy Beshear’s proposed new regulations for youths held in isolation by the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice won’t do anything to improve conditions inside the state’s troubled juvenile ...

A civil rights suit says officials ignored warnings about overcrowding, understaffing and “deplorable” conditions at the ...

Officials report that conditions are improving at the Winnebago County Juvenile Detention Center, but staffing shortages and ...

Current and former employees report that the security and camera systems at the Knox County juvenile detention center fail multiple times a day. County officials acknowledge the system failures but ...

Mecklenburg County sent the second-highest number of young people into North Carolina’s detention system last year — yet it has no juvenile detention center. In 2025, 2,186 people were admitted to ...