Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio's youth prison and juvenile detention centers are failing. Kids in the state's juvenile justice system often face violence ...

Human rights advocates see the Biden administration’s expansion of detention-reliant immigration enforcement as a betrayal, guided by political headwinds rather than operational necessities. In a ...

As recently as 1955 there were virtually no immigrants held in detention in the U.S. Today, the federal government holds tens of thousands each day, in 130 facilities across the country. But the story ...

A national immigrant advocacy group is launching an interactive map designed to help families locate detained loved ones, find legal and community resources, and better understand the expanding U.S.

Despite abhorrent conditions and increasing deaths in ICE detention, the Trump administration’s new warehouse detention system would increase capacity to 96,000 people and undoubtedly lead to ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — On Thursday, Governor Andy Beshear announced more changes to Kentucky's juvenile justice system. According to a press release from the Governor's Office, the Department of ...

You can find the transcript for this episode here. In the sixth and final episode of Detention By Design, we explore the state of immigration detention in 2022, decades after the system was first ...

Amid rural Louisiana's crawfish farms, towering pine trees and cafes serving po'boys, nearly 7,000 people are waiting at immigration detention centers to learn whether they will be expelled from the ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear on Thursday announced plans to revamp Kentucky's troubled juvenile detention system by assigning male teenagers to facilities based on the severity of their offenses ...

The California Supreme Court issued a ruling clarifying that monetary conditions of release must be set at an attainable amount, based on a defendant’s financial circumstances. The decision ...