A social worker was removed from Breathitt Regional Juvenile Detention Center in January, officials say, but no details are being provided.

Former Denton County detention officer Richard Caleb Goodman was arrested on child pornography charges after Dropbox reported suspicious files to the National Center for Missing and Exploited ...

Catholic leaders, including an official from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' migration office, reiterated a pastoral approach to the issue of child detentions by Immigration and Customs ...

Recently, WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reported on Illinois’ county juvenile detention system. Two new state laws look to reform it.

A first-of-its-kind review into the psychological impact of immigration detention has shown there are no safe forms of detention for children. The study led by psychologists at the University of ...

The justice ministry has introduced a new national plan that ensures greater use of non-custodial measures for children accused of offences, so that detention is used only as a last resort. In Rwanda, ...

The contamination is detailed in documents made public as part of federal litigation over the now-closed facility. Advocates ...

Hundreds of Illinois kids are held in county juvenile detention centers while they wait for their court proceeding. In annual ...

A first-of-its-kind review into the psychological impact of immigration detention has shown there are no safe forms of detention for children. The study led by psychologists at the University of ...