At first, then-Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. and a senior colleague in Luzerne County, Pa., allegedly laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks they received for sending juveniles to jail…
Even though she is 23 and married, Daniella Ormsby cried when she recalled the nine months she spent in a juvenile detention facility in Pennsylvania as punishment for missing a…
A 10-year-old Ohio boy is charged with murder in a delinquency petition that accuses him of shooting and killing his mother on Sunday with a .22-caliber rifle.
Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denies, through his legal counsel, that he had anything to do with recent hack attacks on organizations perceived as hostile to his website. And he…
Even if it seems like a nice idea, juvenile court judges should not go jogging with adolescent offenders, says the Florida Supreme Court, in a recent ethics advisory opinion.
A May U.S. Supreme Court ruling that buoyed juvenile justice advocates isn’t having much of an impact in Florida, even though at least 116 inmates qualify for sentencing relief under…
The ACLU took aim at Michigan’s sentencing laws today for cruel and unusual punishment in a suit filed on behalf of nine inmates sentenced to life in prison without the…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a 13-year-old special education student questioned by a police officer at middle school had the right to a Miranda warning.
Juvenile-justice advocates plan to test the reach of a U.S. Supreme Court decision barring life-without-parole sentences for youths who commit crimes other than murder.
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