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But for youth advocates, ending juvenile solitary will take more work. Twenty-three percent of juvenile facilities nationally use some form of isolation, according to a 

A 36-year-old man who’s been in New Mexico prison since he was 16 for a series of rapes he committed when he was 14 and

In the end, after a gut-wrenching three hours of ricocheting emotions, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey Minehart took a short break, returned to the

In June, U.S. District Court Judge James Peterson condemned the State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections for maltreatment of teenage inmates at the Lincoln Hills

Massachusetts law currently allows a child under the age of 16 to be charged with statutory rape for having sex with someone who is the

Teen inmates at the facility north of Wausau filed their civil rights lawsuit in January with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union of

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.

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