Latest Juvenile corrections News

Hundreds sue over alleged sexual abuse in Illinois youth detention centers

Sep. 23, 2024 15:34 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 men and women were sexually abused as children while in custody at juvenile detention centers in Illinois, according to lawsuits filed Monday, the latest in a string of complaints alleging decades of systemic child sex abuse. Three lawsuits filed Monday...

4 Las Vegas teens plead guilty in classmate's deadly beating as part of plea deal

Sep. 03, 2024 20:42 PM EDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four Las Vegas teenagers pleaded guilty Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal beating of their high school classmate, as part of a deal with prosecutors that kept them from being tried as adults. The teens originally were charged in January as adults with...

First criminal trial starts in New Hampshire youth detention center abuse scandal

Aug. 26, 2024 18:34 PM EDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire prosecutor told jurors Monday that a former youth detention center worker “took exactly what he wanted, where he wanted it and when he wanted it” when he repeatedly raped a teenage girl, while his attorney said the accuser concocted the allegations for...

Alabama district judge suspended and accused of letting child abuse cases 'languish,' complaint says

Aug. 14, 2024 14:06 PM EDT

OZARK, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama district judge who presides over cases in juvenile court, often involving child abuse or neglect, has been suspended after a state-led investigation that looked at hundreds of cases and took over a year to complete. The Alabama Judicial Inquiry...