SANTA CRUZ COUNTY began a $23 million renovation of its juvenile hall this week despite a declining population and shorter stays for detainees.  The ...

A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 135 years in prison after he sexually abused a young boy from Washington Parish.

Nearly a decade ago, New Orleans officials hailed their new jail as a harbinger of change.

Eight current residents of Green Hill School in Chehalis will be voluntarily transferred to Harbor Heights, a new juvenile rehabilitation center on the grounds of Stafford Creek Corrections Center ...

Amendment 1489 is a boiled down version of LB 556 and now only includes lowering the age someone can be detained to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for ...

Facing allegations of a conflict of interest, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams removed himself this week from a Louisiana Attorney General-led investigation into ...

For the past few weeks, Kendrick Rochelle has been going to Washington’s overcrowded youth prison in Chehalis to build ...

Nearly six years after 17-year-old Alysha Johnson was shot and killed outside a north Charlotte convenience store, the man ...

These escapes were more than an act, they were a symptom. They signal the breaking point in a system long frayed by injustice ...

AN ALL OUT SEARCH FOR THE TWO REMAINING INMATES WHO ESCAPED FROM THE ORLEANS PARISH JAIL. AS LEADERS ARE NOW OFFERING A $50,000 REWARD TO TRY TO BRING THEM BACK INTO CUSTODY. IT COMES AS TODAY MARKS ...

It has been two weeks since 10 inmates escaped the Orleans Parish jail, and all but two inmates have been recaptured. Two ...