The investigation revealed that at least two complaints involved allegations of an employee sexually abusing a youth and that ...

Ten men who were in custody at MacLaren Youth Correctional Center between 2000 and 2007 said complaints about the doctor made ...

While ideas diverge, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appear to agree something needs to be done about overcrowding at ...

In 2016, the jail started housing adult inmates, whose population reached a high of 88, according to Carolynn Stocker, the ...

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

As safety issues at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center have made headlines in recent months, one state lawmaker is calling for greater transparency from the state agency that oversees the facility.

The head of Maine's only youth prison has resigned. Lynne Allen served as superintendent of the Long Creek Youth Development ...

He wound up graduating from Howard University, running a nonprofit in Oakland called the Mentoring Center and serving in the leadership of the District of Columbia’s Department of Youth ...

The years that followed led to the creation of a foundation in Khamisa’s name, one dedicated to stopping youth violence.

In just a matter of months, Gov. Jeff Landry plans to reopen a Baton Rouge-area youth prison shuttered a little over a decade ago with support at the time from Democrats and Republicans. Landry ...