In imposing the adult sentence in September 2024, Dellick said Thomas will serve five years of post release control when he leaves adult prison. She gave him credit against his sentence for the ...

When former juvenile lifer James Fuson was released from prison in 2022 after being incarcerated since age 16, he had no housing options. Two Hamtramck men, Jonathan Rajewski and Kyle Daniel-Bey, took ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama in an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on Monday announced that he is banning solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons, citing ...

In two major criminal law decisions Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment does not allow sentences of life in prison without parole for juveniles who committed nonhomicide crimes ...

James Comer, the Newark native convicted of felony murder as a teenager who challenged his original 75-year sentence as “cruel and unusual punishment” and won a landmark ruling by the New Jersey ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County judge ruled Friday that the Cambria County Prison is providing a juvenile with sufficient “sight and sound” housing away from adult inmates after the juvenile notified ...

A Fernley man convicted in a disturbing kidnapping and child abuse case will spend decades behind bars. On Monday, Guillermo Aboytes-Saavedra was sentenced in Third Judicial District Court under a ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state officials are seeking legislative authority to transfer certain juvenile offenders to adult prisons at younger ages than currently allowed, citing severe overcrowding ...