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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

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 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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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

In so doing, the high court underscored a string of federal rulings that have revolutionized the way that juveniles who commit the most serious of