Frankie Bachelder first entered Long Creek Youth Development Center when he was 14 years old, and lived inside the juvenile ...

Maryland’s insistence on being out of step with the rest of the country is long overdue for course correction.

Workgroup recommends youth cases start in juvenile court 85% of minors auto-charged as adults return to juvenile court or are dismissed Proposed reforms aim to reduce youth detention in adult jails ...

Punishment provides immediate, visible results, while empowering youth requires patience, understanding and time. But let’s be clear: punitive and exclusionary responses backfire, causing harm to ...

Maryland’s automatic charging laws are among the nation’s strictest. The state automatically charges 16- and 17-year-olds as adults for 33 offenses.

Nearly twenty years ago, the Odessa American introduced the community to a determined young man trekking across the state of Texas in a lawnmower to benefit St. Jude’s Ranch for Children. Now a ...

Maryland residents should not be deceived by the drop in juvenile arrests in the last few years, Eastern Shore sheriffs and lawmakers say. The decline, they say, is caused by added restrictions that ...

Missouri Republicans are championing juvenile justice reform.

When former juvenile lifer James Fuson was released from prison in 2022 after being incarcerated since age 16, he had no housing options. Two Hamtramck men, Jonathan Rajewski and Kyle Daniel-Bey, took ...