The Board of Supervisors moves toward its long-stalled “Youth Justice Reimagined” plan that envisions replacing traditional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reports of a bare room with a grated drain in the center, called “the Hole,” used as a disciplinary tactic in one facility.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juvenile detention bedrooms at the C.A. Dillon facility each have a window. There are 10 to a wing in one building and 12 to a ...

More than a decade ago, I walked into the Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Los Angeles County to gather data for a lawsuit related to their “failure to provide an adequate education to detained ...

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 ...

SCRANTON — Officials touted Tuesday a juvenile detention partnership between Lackawanna and three other counties as the best and most cost-effective option available to address a “crisis” marked by a ...

Kentucky centers reported chronic understaffing through 2025, hindering operations. Staff shortages forced overtime, role shifting and routine PREA noncompliance. Lawmakers debate new beds versus ...

Nearly all of Kentucky's eight state-run juvenile detention centers struggled through 2025 without enough staff, a problem that has undermined the correctional facilities for years, according to ...