The Social Justice Institute's R & R (Research and Refreshment) lecture series will return to explore what it means to engage in social justice-related research. These talks feature campus and ...

Teenagers in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system are routinely being locked alone in their rooms for as much as 23 to 24 hours a day, according to an ongoing federal lawsuit and advocates for ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — In less than two months, at least five juveniles escaped from North Carolina juvenile detention facilities. Those escapes are symptoms of what Wake County District Attorney ...

At 13 years old, Joe Sullivan was told he would die in prison. The then-teenager's life came crashing down around him after he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for robbing and sexually ...

A Maryland state senator is responding to criticism over a report that calls for an end to the state’s practice of ...

BOSTON — In the photos that ran in the Telegram & Gazette in 2006, Charles Rosario, then 21, stands, head hanging, listening as his future life is decided by a judge after he pleaded guilty to ...

Maryland lawmakers are debating whether to reform the state's practice of automatically charging some teenage defendants as adults. Reform advocates argue that trying teenagers in adult court ...

Bill Gibbons serves as president of the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission and executive director of the University of Memphis Public Safety Institute. Blended sentencing offers an opportunity for many ...

DECATUR — Imagine you’re a cop: You’ve just detained a 15-year-old boy and two 14-year-old accomplices accused of the gunpoint robbery of a Decatur pizza delivery driver. And you have no choice but to ...

In and out of juvenile detention since age 11, Curtis Tassin earned the jailhouse nickname “Houdini” after three bold escapes from three different lockups. But those brazen breakouts were just the ...