VALDOSTA — Valdosta police charged two teen-agers Thursday in connection with the shooting of another teen. Police responded to the 900 block of Lakeside Drive about 1:40 p.m. Thursday after several ...

As H. Lynn Hadnot prepares to take over Dallas County Juvenile Services as director next month, he said a top priority will ...

A man extradited from Georgia to Connecticut on Tuesday was arrested on sexual assault and child endangerment charges after police said an investigation found he had inappropriate contact with ...

Blaming staff shortages and an unsafe building, the Broward Sheriff’s Office won’t provide deputies to work at the state’s ...

Despite a federal civil-rights investigation, problems continue at Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, a Herald-Leader ...

The state Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday it is closing the Shawono Center in Grayling and moving ...

The Sangamon County Juvenile Center is reopening after extensive renovations and a review by the Administrative Office of ...

Lynn Hadnot speaks after officially being appointed to the position during a Dallas County Juvenile Board meeting at the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice ... The department remains under a criminal ...

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” for which he received a ...

Judy retired from the Sheriff' Office in 1997, after 24 years' service. Judy was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to the State Board of Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, and served for eight ...

Some of the lawsuits’ allegations date back decades, when the city Department ... They want justice, and they want this cycle of sexual violence at these juvenile centers to end.” ...