State lawmakers have moved a proposal to standardize and expand programs that divert children to alternatives to the criminal ...

MICHIGAN (WNEM) - Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist signed bipartisan legislation which is aimed at transforming Michigan’s juvenile justice system and investing in diversion and re-entry services to set up ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (WCCO)-- We've heard a lot recently about young people committing crimes and being placed back in the community. And we've heard outrage from victims. There's a program with the ...

With juvenile car thefts and low-level felony cases a continued concern, Franklin County officials are taking a new approach ...

The Youth Diversion Office in Mitchell is looking to keep kids out of incarceration with a new kind of program that compliments its existing court diversion resources. Davison County is one of three ...

Advocates heralded a series of bills aimed at overhauling Michigan's juvenile justice system signed into law Tuesday while urging lawmakers to pass one more piece of legislation ensuring legal ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said there should be more alternatives ...

Jill Mencke, a youth justice analyst at the Oklahoma Policy Institute, said early judgments made about children who cross paths with the police or others in the justice system can negatively affect ...