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.

On Friday, the state budget passed, including a change to allow for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the age of juvenile delinquency would increase from 16 to 17-years-old beginning Oct. 1, 2018. It would then rise to 18 on Oct. 1, 2019.

HARTFORD, CT - Passing legislation revamping the juvenile justice system, one of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s signature initiatives this year, failed to make it through the Judiciary Committee Friday.

A new computer program is changing lives for juvenile inmates.

CARSON CITY — Nevada’s juvenile justice system may be getting an overhaul. The end result: Putting county and state juvenile justice officials on the same page.

A sweeping juvenile justice reform bill passed the Utah legislature this month and was enacted into law with broad support.

Sponsored by Representative Lowry Snow (R), House Bill 239 makes numerous changes to Utah’s juvenile code to keep lower-level delinquent youth out of costly detention and instead provide evidence-based, home-based counseling and supervision in the community.

State senators Monday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that would ban any use of physical restraints, such as handcuffs or shackles, on children during a juvenile court proceeding unless it's shown there's an immediate risk of danger.

A new legislative report says that tracking court rulings and related judicial sanctions — such as probation, adult jail or prison — for juveniles directly filed into Florida’s adult court system is limited by a lack of accessible records.

The House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee on Wednesday voted to approve a bill that would raise the age of criminal responsibility in Texas from 17 to 18.  

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — For some juvenile offenders, their choice is straight out of Hamlet: to act or not to act.

Shakespeare & Company, a theater company in Lenox, Massachusetts, works with the courts to get youngsters who run afoul of the law sentenced to perform works of Shakespeare onstage as an alternative to community service or juvenile detention.

Court officials are urging lawmakers to approve what they called a long-overdue interim study of the state’s juvenile court system. The proposal follows a study conducted over the past interim on the adult correctional system.