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Judges steered two-thirds of cases involving kids accused of crimes to just 10 lawyers in one year, according to a Marshall Project - Cleveland analysis.

Gov. Mike DeWine wants a working group to examine problems found by an eight-month investigation into Ohio's youth prisons and local detention centers.

Gov. Mike DeWine wants a working group to examine problems found by an eight-month investigation into Ohio's youth prisons and local detention centers.

Detention and prison is a last chance to help Ohio kids turn their lives around. But our investigation found the system is plagued with problems.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Turning around South Carolina’s chronically dangerous juvenile prisons is now the job of a prosecutor who sent some of those children to jail. Department of Juvenile Justice Director Eden Hendrick is leading the troubled agency after two of her predecessors resigned following state audits that found major faults, from a “useless and ineffective” in-house police force to an inability to keep children safe.

Turning around South Carolina's chronically dangerous juvenile prisons is now the job of a prosecutor who sent some of those children to jail.

Turning around South Carolinas chronically dangerous juvenile prisons is now the job of a prosecutor who sent some of those children to jail

ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) -- When Athens County investigators were looking to question a boy in the foster system who was a suspect in a rape investigation, they ran into some resistance.Several employe

Teens at Louisiana’s newest juvenile lockup, Acadiana Center for Youth at St. Martinville, were held in solitary confinement around the clock, shackled with leg irons and deprived of an education. “This is child abuse,” one expert said.

NC bill takes aim at prosecution of 6-year-olds By Bryan Anderson CDC: children’s summer camps should continue social distancing, mask-wearing The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its COVID-19 guidelines for childrens summer camps. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Children as young as 6 can be prosecuted in North Carolina juvenile court — the lowest age set by law in the country — but a bipartisan effort would raise the minimum age of delinquency to 10 and move the state ou...