juvenile justice

A youth sentencing study shows Alabama and Mississippi are among just four states that top the nation in new juvenile life without parole sentences since 2012.

The state of Louisiana has been given one week to shut down a temporary youth detention center at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola following an order from a federal judge Friday.

The Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice has been using the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola as a temporary juvenile unit for the better part of a year.

Daniel L. Hatcher discusses his book, which looks at how state agencies exploit impoverished families to make money through the U.S. juvenile justice system.

A conversation with journalist and podcast host Josie Duffy Rice details the troubled history of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, or Mt. Meigs.

Incarcerated youth from across the state deemed the most troubled and aggressive could be moved to a building on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, one of the country’s largest and most notorious maximum security prisons for adults.

Officials want to roll back changes made for therapeutic ‘Missouri model’ of care

Loyola Univesity’s Law Clinic filed a suit Tuesday morning in Orleans Civil District Court against the City of New Orleans after evacuating children held at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center to an adult prison during Hurricane Ida.

Evacuation plans have called for teens to go to Dixon since 2018.

The New Orleans Police Department will start enforcing the city-wide summer curfew on children in response to recent increases in car break-ins and…