Sheriff Bonner seeks new facilities to address a crisis in Shelby County Jail after two recent inmate deaths, emphasizing ...

Local first responders are pushing back against a bill that would provide major property tax exemptions for single-family residential structures at the expense of funding for law enforcement and local ...

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.

Lawmakers want to make impersonating firefighters a felony as convicted arsonist Dustin Nehl, 31, and his wife Jenni, 44, an ...

While the faces of those perpetrating custodial deaths and custodial torture in Bangladesh have changed since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, these heinous crimes continue to occur, according to Odhikar, one ...

Survivors of sexual abuse at Illinois Youth Centers (IYCs) and the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) have filed new lawsuits against the state, bringing the total to 800 cases.

With an average length of stay of only 28 days, the Pennington County Juvenile Service Center works with kids daily through educational classes and work to prepare them to re-enter the community.

A juvenile correctional center underwent a revolt this weekend as teens allegedly tried to take over a housing unit.

The Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice released an update on Monday regarding an ongoing investigation into an incident involving “unruly and noncompliant” male juveniles at Bon ...

A man accused of attempting to rob a Staples store and stab a witness with a crowbar made his first court appearance on ...

Two inmates, Justin Turner and David James, have walked away from the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen, Oklahoma ...

A man who has been charged 18 times, including with the sexual assault of a minor, and who had been on the run for three ...