Sheriff’s deputies pushed them against jail-yard fences and shoved them to the ground. They yelled and cursed within inches of their faces. They forced them to run for long periods, ignoring pleas for ...

In his new book, Bob Hatrak reflects on his time serving as the country's youngest warden of a maximum-security prison Courtesy of Hatrak Family; Villa Magna Publishing Bob Hatrak; Not on My Watch ...

STURTEVANT -- Faced with a shrinking budget and a staff that was stretched too thin, the Racine Correctional Institution has discarded a program that brought young people behind prison walls for a ...

Misguided, abusive and potentially harmful. That’s how six experts characterized a program in Chester County, S.C., that is designed to scare at-risk youths into better behavior. A Rock Hill Herald ...

A one-year-old Fairfax County juvenile diversion program called TAP, aimed at educating at-risk youth about the unpleasant realities of prison life, seems to be achieving some anecdotal success and is ...

When teenagers get into trouble, what should their parents do? A couple of months ago, a father wrote to Dear Abby with that very question. His 16-year-old daughter had become a "nightmare," he said, ...

In 1978 when I was 10 years old the first "Scared Straight" documentary was released. Narrated by Peter Falk, TV's "Columbo," the film followed the experience of "juvenile delinquents," teens we would ...