In response, less than halfway into his term, 317th District Civil Court Judge Gordon Friesz created FORM — First-time ...

"This is our social hurricane, and we need to buckle down, boots to the ground, ready to battle the storm and fight to ...

Do we just need more space or less detention? Different views on the way forward as police and justice activists seek solutions.

While media reports have focused on an uptick in juvenile crime, the data shows these patterns have decreased over the last ...

Over recent decades we’ve moved toward a much more effective and humane system to deal with youth crime. Evidence and ...

Demanding action from state lawmakers, prosecutors and New Mexico’s top law enforcement leaders say the time is now to change ...

In his two and a half years as Bernalillo County District Attorney, Sam Bregman said his office has linked 70 different homicides to 53 juveniles. In Española, with less than 11,000 residents, police ...

Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman is once again pleading for help from New Mexico state legislators in the battle against juvenile crime.

Outrage has erupted as the accused in the Pune Porsche hit-and-run case, referred to as a ‘privileged brat,’ will be ...

Teens accused of violent crimes were being released with ankle monitors, but no one was tracking them in real time. WDSU ...

A disturbing discovery in Maryland has reignited calls for urgent reform to the state’s youth justice system— one that critics say still reflects the racism and cruelty of its 19th-century past. In a ...