PURE Academy, which has partnered with Shelby County Juvenile Court to keep young men out of jail, opened its secondary ...

Commissioners are concerned over the increase in length of stay and the racial disparities in DCYC's latest report.

Maryland lawmakers are once again debating whether to scale back the state’s practice of automatically placing teenage defendants in adult court if they are accused of serious crimes.

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The Department of Juvenile Services is supportive of the proposed reforms, and its legislative director testified in support of Smith’s bill, arguing that their agency already serves the substantial ...

Nearly a month after being the victim of an armed carjacking outside his home in southwest Baltimore, Kenny Devera is still looking for answers abou ...

Sen. William C. Smith Jr. sponsors proposal would raise the age at which a juvenile would be tried as an adult from 14 to 16.

Warwickshire has the lowest rate of young criminals caught reoffending in England and Wales, latest figures show.

In the wake of a botched car theft that left a 9-year-old with a gunshot wound to the chest, attention is again back on ...

Criminal justice advocates welcomed a Senate bill that would sharply reduce the number of crimes for which a juvenile could ...

Maryland Senate discussions around legislation to stop automatically charging minors as adults for certain crimes Wednesday ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) discussed a range of recommendations to improve the juvenile justice system for ...