New Jersey has an "abusive and arbitrary" system that allows prosecutors to send children and teens to adult court, a new ...

A man who shot and killed an Oceanside police officer when he was 17 years old was sentenced to life in prison without the ...

Community Journalism Lab representative Eden Barnes, in partnership with Fringe Benefits of Education, held a community ...

They discovered allegiances and enemies as tormented youths on the streets of Dorchester. Now, as adults, they find the spark ...

Meki Gaono was 17 when he and two alleged gang members opened fire on Officer Dan Bessant days before Christmas in 2006. He was arrested, convicted of murder and sentenced in 2009 to life without ...

Meki Gaono was 17 years old when he and two alleged gang members opened fire on Officer Dan Bessant days before Christmas in ...

The Illinois lawsuits are part of a wave of complaints against juvenile detention centers nationwide including in New Jersey, ...

Prosecutors say he is believed to have been the one among four suspects who fired the gunshots in a westside neighborhood on ...

More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois ...

New Jersey’s Indiscriminate Prosecution of Children as Adults,” reveals that prosecutors have near-total discretion to decide ...

There’s language in the Arkansas Constitution that has exceptions for slavery or involuntary servitude, but a bill recently filed in the Arkansas House is looking to erase that.