The Department of Youth Services confirms that at least 62 youth-on-staff assaults have happened this year at the Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility.

The Kentucky Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Wednesday fined a former juvenile justice guard $5,000 for engaging in ...

PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. – Officials with the Pulaski County Juvenile Detention Center said that a male officer was placed on suspension after reportedly making an inappropriate comment to a female ...

Details regarding the procession for Juvenile Detention Center Officer Jayda Floyd are as follows: The Ector County Sheriff’s Office, Juvenile Detention Center Director Kevin Mann, and Medical ...

Harris County juvenile detention officers work in a difficult, sometimes violent, environment and were unfairly accused of detainee abuse at a state legislative hearing this week, a prosecutor who ...

Lisa Smart, of Meigs, Brittany Revels, of Thomasville, and Jeremiah Walker, of Thomasville, were among 36 Department of ...

In this June 2020 file photo, a group protests at the Tarrant County Juvenile Detention Center in Fort Worth over the detainment of multiple youth accused of involvement in a park shooting. A Tarrant ...

Dallas County announced the hiring of H. Lynn Hadnot in January as Executive Director of the Juvenile Department. He came ...

Pepper spray — also known as OC spray, because it’s derived from the chili-pepper extract oleoresin capsicum — is banned in most U.S. juvenile detention systems. Youth advocates say it can cause ...