Juvenile Offenders
Juvenile offenders require specialized approaches within the correctional system to address their unique needs and promote rehabilitation. This directory offers articles and resources on managing and supporting juvenile offenders, including education programs, counseling, and legal considerations. Understanding the distinct challenges of working with juvenile offenders is essential for fostering positive outcomes and reducing recidivism. For related topics, explore our section on Youth Rehabilitation Programs.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office currently staffs the facility 24 hours a day but says critical shortages and safety concerns make continued operations unsustainable
Bradley Asbury, now 70, was found guilty of holding down a 14-year-old during a sexual assault by colleagues at the Sununu Youth Services Center
The Probation Department is working to meet staffing requirements by offering $24,000 signing bonuses and a new standby program that pays officers to be “on call”
The number of Texas teens behind bars has dropped as the state rethinks how to incarcerate its underage felons
The reforms were announced nearly three months after a Jan. 8 riot at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center
The prison had been the target of CO-on-prisoner allegations for years
For the first time in a decade, Florida juvenile detention and probation officers will see a bump in their salaries
A lawmaker is asking state officials to investigate allegations that inmates younger than 18 were abused and neglected in an adult prison on the Gulf Coast
Lawmakers approved a plan in February to close the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls
The advocates calling to close Maine’s youth prison and the people who run it agree on something: Fewer kids behind bars is better
The court struck down sentences that fail to give juveniles a chance at parole for 50 years or more for crimes other than homicide
The state assembly approved a bill that would close the troubled Lincoln Hills youth prison by 2021
Advocates contend the state’s system locks up too many kids for low-level offenses
The Court’s 2016 decision in the case opened the door for roughly 2K other juvenile offenders to argue for their release
The bill would close Lincoln Hills by mid-2020, move the most serious offenders into state prisons and put counties in charge of the rest
The bill calls for the closing of Lincoln Hills by mid-2020, with the most serious male offenders being moved to state-run prisons
The state Assembly has crafted a bill that calls for closing Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison and moving its inmates into new state and county facilities
A state lawmaker and reform groups are pushing to bar officers from carrying pepper spray in juvenile jails in California
The riot caused an estimated $200,000 in damages and boosted calls for reform to the facility
One problem the report found was that COs are under-trained and often do not enforce rules, and inmates in turn do not respect them
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 when he and an accomplice killed 10 people in 2002
Karmin Bryant retired last week in the wake of a riot inside the jail that caused an estimated $200,000 in damage
Lee Boyd Malvo was arrested in the random shootings that killed 10 people in and around the nation’s capital
Gov. Scott Walker urged the Legislature to adopt his proposal this spring rather than 18 months from now, but lawmakers said not so fast
Gov. Scott Walker is urging the Legislature to adopt his proposal this spring rather than 18 months from now
Officials said the inmates used chairs to smash security glass, damaged cell doors, sprinklers and other objects
More than 20 cars surrounded the building as a county SWAT team went inside to quell the fight
Gov. Scott Walker wants to spend $80 million on five new juvenile prisons and a larger mental health facility
Gov. Scott Walker plans to convert the Lincoln Hills facility into a prison for adult inmates
Prosecutors say the officer’s off-duty weapon discharged accidentally and that he was taken to a hospital
The Giddings State School has a history of violence and gang activity, disruptions and staffing and supervision issues
Inmates at Dallas County correctional center for boys allegedly went months, sometimes more than a year, without going outdoors more than a few times
Female COs at Wisconsin’s teen prison say inmates expose themselves and make sexual remarks, but their bosses don’t consider the issue as pervasive as they do
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