Prosecutors are seeking to have a 15-year-old, charged with aggravated murder, tried as an adult. The teenager is accused of ...

Critics argue the bill mirrors the recently rejected Amendment 3 and will lead to harsher treatment of juveniles, ...

In recent years, increasing numbers of states have taken actions that allow juvenile offenders to be tried as adults in the justice system. This growing trend only serves to severely damage children ...

Louisiana Senator Alan Seabaugh proposed a bill to shift certain juvenile felony cases to specific courts. Critics argue this ...

Keiner Asprilla was a top basketball prospect playing center for St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City until he was arrested in ...

The teenager accused of killing a man during a shootout near the University of Cincinnati's campus is due back in court ...

A Howard County Circuit Court judge has ruled that two teen suspects charged in the killing of Kendrick McLellan will be ...

A Texas Senate bill under consideration would lower the current age from 16 for juveniles already in the system and commit a ...

since the availability of appropriate services is one factor judges must consider when deciding whether a case should be tried in adult or juvenile court. In the Dallas County case, a 16-year-old ...

Last year, legislation that would have allowed 18-year-olds to be tried as juveniles ... case load it would produce. But advocates for the legislation say that convicting young people as adults ...

A Massachusetts bill to raise the age to be tried as an adult, supported by ... or in the case of 17-year-olds, 18 months after the juvenile is found delinquent. Last year, legislation that ...