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After a federal judge ordered changes at Wisconsin's troubled youth prisons, Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Hill School for Girls, we look at

After a federal judge ordered changes at Wisconsin's troubled youth prisons, Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Hill School for Girls, we look at

U.S. District Judge James Peterson last month ordered those plans to be written after he found teen inmates' constitutional rights were likely being violated at

Videos of two teen inmates being sprayed repeatedly by guards at the state's youth prison in Irma were released to the public on Thursday.

The

With the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issuing a much-anticipated ruling on juveniles’ prison sentences of life without parole, Pennsylvania courts have begun to move forward toward

Videos showing two teen inmatesgetting hit with pepper spray were made public Thursday as part of an ongoing lawsuit over Wisconsin's controversial juvenile prison complex

That sentiment is shared by Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia. 

“There’s no positive value to a false

Earlier this week, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Commonwealth v. Batts that, before a child can be sentenced to life without parole, the state must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the youth is permanently incorrigible. Juvenile Law Center filed amicus briefs in Batts and argued the case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2012 and 2016.

LGBTQ youth are over-represented in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. The federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention estimates that LGBTQ youth are approximately 7% of the population generally but 13-15% of those in the juvenile justice system.