One morning last May, 16-year-old Abdul Anderson stood slouched against a wall at Cove Secure, a juvenile institution on the ...

Children as young as 12 years old could face adult criminal charges for certain felony crimes under a bill introduced in the Nebraska Legislature on Wednesday.

A bill to strengthen data and information sharing about state-supervised youth, including those in the juvenile justice ...

Juvenile justice reform advocates are calling for an end to laws that automatically put minors accused of crimes in the adult ...

Right now, Nebraska law says a juvenile can be charged as an adult for a violent crime if they are between the ages of 14-18.

A proposed law would give prosecutors and judges new authority to put Nebraskans as young as 11 in detention facilities and let them charge certain 12-year-olds as adults, the Nebraska Examiner ...

When people think of trafficking, a lot of people think it’s like the movies, people getting snatched off the streets. But that's not always what it looks like.

The Maryland Office of the Public Defender is pushing for legislation this session that would force legal proceedings to begin in juvenile court for kids charged with crimes, regardless of what ...

Gov. Jim Pillen and Nebraska law enforcement officials back a proposed law that would allow the state to jail children as young as 11 and file adult charges against 12-year-olds.

Maryland’s top prosecutors are speaking out against a proposed law that would change the way juvenile offenders are ...

Who is Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Charles Blomquist? He’s relatively new to the bench. But in just a few years, some ...