Supporters of raising the age of criminal responsibility in North Carolina are optimistic as legislation heads to the Senate after a 104-8 approval vote in the General Assembly.

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring a Tennessee county from enforcing a policy that allows even very young children accused of minor infractions to be locked up until a hearing.

Costs, safety fuel fears over criminal justice measure

(WSAW) – During his first year on the job, Wisconsin Department of Corrections incident reports, obtained by 7 investigates, show under Corrections Secretary Jon Litscher there have been more than five times as many recorded Division of Juvenile Corrections pepper spray incidents inside the state’s only youth prison, the Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake Schools in Irma.

The community garden at the Bay Regional Juvenile Justice Center is one of several gardens in the city whose purpose is to serve as a therapeutic activity.

With the signing of the state budget last week, New York joins 48 other states that do not automatically treat 16- and 17-year-olds as adults.

Johnathan recently told a room full of adults at the University of Washington Tacoma how he became part of the Surenos gang.

The 17-year-old talked about how he got expelled from school for doing a gang whistle down a hallway.

And he answered questions about what might have kept him out of the juvenile justice system in the first place.

PORT ANGELES, WA — A juvenile justice sales tax might appear on the Clallam County election ballot this November.

The three commissioners agreed Monday to continue exploring a one-tenth of 1 percent juvenile detention facility sales and use tax.