A lot of my friends die and never graduate.' As outsiders argue about the value of detention, students reflect on what they ...

Richard L. Bean remained in his perch as the superintendent of the juvenile detention center that bears his name despite ...

That "street guy" was Darryl Baum, whose memory Tyson evoked moments before his "eat his children" rant. Tyson dedicated the ...

When a Chinese court handed Cheng Lei a prison sentence for trumped-up espionage charges, she quietly calculated how old her ...

A Colorado resident and former lawyer, Koval sets the action mostly in a small southwestern Colorado ski town. The setting is ...

Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan ...

Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed a bill into law that will increase the number of young people Colorado can hold in ...

Three new books examine where U.S. COVID-19 policy went wrong and how it has shaped children's lives and development.

The Trump administration is continuing its crackdown on immigration through enforcement raids, arrests and deportations. That has included some teenagers being taken into custody by immigration ...

The California Senate approved a measure to allow inmates sentenced to life without parole the chance to seek an early ...

The family recorded the video in Gomes’s room, where the teen shares a bunk bed with his younger brother, Miguel.

As classmates and community members show their support for a Massachusetts high school student detained by U.S. Immigration ...