Ohio should stop sending nonviolent first-time offenders and children under age 14 to the state's youth prisons and give juvenile court judges more discretion on how to handle kids caught with guns, a ...

Less than a year after a scathing report from the Department of Justice found that Texas juvenile prisons are rife with sexual and physical abuse, the state Legislature is considering sending more ...

It should be a crime that America locks up so much of its youths. Right now the United States has more than 60,000 children sitting in jail, lost in a broken system that has led our country to ...

WARREN — Members of Free Indeed Prison Ministries came together over the weekend to provide a special holiday celebration for ...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Tarrant County recently sent more kids to state youth prisons than any other ...

The Angel Tree Christman program allows incarcerated parents to provide a gift with a handwritten note to their children during the holiday season The program helps to build a connection between the ...