The ACLU warns that a new rule allowing the government to look into potential guardians' immigration status will leave the children with nowhere to go but detention facilities.
The Trump administration is preparing to warehouse immigrant children on military bases after they have been separated from their parents while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
A new "zero tolerance" border enforcement policy will launch a crackdown on people crossing the border illegally.
Many states have banned or severely limited solitary confinement for juveniles because of its negative impact on youth. But Chicago's Cook County detention system has gone in the other direction.
The Supreme Court gives juveniles sentenced to life in prison a second chance.
Meridian, Mississippi, is the latest district to face consequences for disproportionately punishing black students.
Doing time in juvenile detention lowers high school graduation rates and raises adult incarceration rates, economists find.
Should kids be led out of class in handcuffs for being late to school?
States pay hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to keep each juvenile offender behind bars. A new report calculates that long-term costs of incarceration could add up to $21 billion annually.
After years of frustration and delay, some hope in the fight against sex abuse in the nation’s juvenile jails.