On a recent afternoon, a 15-year-old sat nervously in a courtroom at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center in Seattle. After spending four months in detention, he was pleading ...

During testimony in court, the compliance monitor described seeing four probation officers sitting around in a juvenile hall ...

One day after the L.A. County probation department refused a state oversight body’s order to shut down a long-troubled youth facility, an L.A. County judge reopened the door to closing Los Padrinos ...

WASHINGTON — Testifying Wednesday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, Breane Wingfield said she was 14 when, in 2005, she was sexually assaulted in a van by a deputy probation officer employed at ...

Thirty officers from the Los Angeles County Probation Department have been indicted on criminal charges after an investigation into allegations they allowed — and in some cases encouraged — fights ...

I grew up in poverty, with a father in and out of prison, a mother addicted to heroin, and my cousins caught up in gangs. When I was a teenager, my friends and I started stealing cars and joyriding as ...