One bill would create a juvenile detention database and another would guarantee legal representation for children in custody ...

The Shelby County Division of Corrections will take over the center after the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said it could no ...

The inmate population at Westmoreland County Prison has swelled ... to increase the number of teens housed next door at the county’s juvenile detention center in Hempfield.

Boettger on Monday told members of Westmoreland County's prison board that released inmates have become a ... includes the county-owned nursing home, juvenile detention center, forensic ...

State police in Westmoreland County had to stop what they are calling a riot at a juvenile detention center over the weekend. Four teenagers are being charged as adults for their role in the chaos.

All but three federal death row inmates had their sentences converted ... a scheme involving Conahan and another judge to shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and send children to ...

A 16-year-old inmate at a juvenile correctional facility in Wisconsin ... Javarius Hurd appears in court in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, June 26, 2024. Hurd's bond was set at $100,000 and he was ...

Shuman Juvenile Detention Center in Pittsburgh ... prohibit incarcerated teens from having contact with adult inmates. Westmoreland County’s youthful offenders have been housed at cordoned ...

HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — For the past 10 months, the rooms at the Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center have sat empty. It’s been closed since June. That changes on Wednesday when the ...

but the closures of the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center in Allegheny County and the Westmoreland Juvenile Detention Center leave few options for secure detention. "They are roaming the streets ...

Westmoreland Controller Jeff Balzer, chairman of the county's juvenile detention center board ... of critical state inspections. Hiring a new roster of employees has been a slow process.

TROOPERS SAY AT THIS POINT THEY’RE NOT ABLE TO RELEASE WHETHER OR NOT THE TWO TEENS WILL FAC State police said two teenagers who escaped the Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center in ...