A trial for a Louisville teen illuminated the chaos of a high-profile riot in Adair County and showed how systemic errors ...

A detention center constructed to ease the increase of detained juveniles in the state is now expected to open months later ...

The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in 2004 has filed a stay of execution.

A 72-year-old man arrested under the Pocso Act died at Stanley Hospital. In Puzhal prison, a Nigerian woman attacked a South ...

A juvenile detention officer repeatedly assaulted a 15-year-old inmate who’s accused of kicking his cell door when his calls ...

An Oakland County woman accused of sex crimes against teens at a Wayne County juvenile detention center while working there is competent to stand trial, based on results of a psychiatric-psychological ...

A physical altercation last summer at Red Onion State Prison, where he is incarcerated, left them deeply concerned for his ...

A former corrections officer at a western Kentucky juvenile detention center has been charged after breaking the arms of two ...

In prison, each inmate got their own cell and could purchase things for ... by an officer through a hallway with a visible ...

Activists say an Alabama teenager's incarceration in an adult jail violates federal and state laws that require inmates who ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A seventh inmate has died at Wisconsin's oldest prison, less than a year after the then-warden and multiple members of his staff were charged with misconduct and felony ...