SALISBURY — The Salisbury Police Department and the juvenile court system have begun to sit down and have conversations about how best to connect their interests, a conversation both sides say has ...

It’s difficult to imagine anything more terrifying and devastating than your child being charged with a crime. At a time when you want to do everything in your power to protect your child, parents ...

Court officials are urging lawmakers to approve what they called a long-overdue interim study of the state’s juvenile court system. The proposal follows a study conducted over the past interim on the ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Senate Democrats this week advanced perennial legislation to raise the age at which a person becomes subject to the adult criminal justice system to 21, a change that would divert ...

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

Editor's note: This story was originally published in April. Rick Dempsey said his son was a good kid. “Straight-A student, honor roll, taking all college-level classes,” said Dempsey, a Porter County ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A lack of resources, including and especially financial ones, have thwarted the ability to effectively rehabilitate teenagers in the Shelby County Juvenile Court system, one county ...