Punishment provides immediate, visible results, while empowering youth requires patience, understanding and time.

Maryland’s insistence on being out of step with the rest of the country is long overdue for course correction.

At a town hall meeting in Las Cruces, Police Chief Jeremy Story presented last year's crime data and outlined priorities for ...

PORT ANGELES — When youths are assigned to Clallam County Juvenile and Family Services Drug Court, they face a great many uncertainties. Did they make the right decision opting for the program? Could ...

Alternatives to jailing juveniles are paying off in Steuben County, according to results of research Trine University ...

Fausto Lopez's journey to higher education took him from Riverside County juvenile facilities to a fire camp in Amador County ...

Bench Mark Program, a city-based mentoring program for at-risk youth, recently received the “Community-Based Program of the Year Award” from two juvenile justice organizations for its work within the ...

The news of a 17-year-old girl shot dead in broad daylight fueled the inspiration behind a Juvenile Justice Intervention Center mural. The girl's brother, a detained youth at the Gentilly-based center ...

The Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District is proposing a 30,000 square foot Juvenile Detention facility to address ...