Report Slams Jailing of Disturbed Youths in New Jersey
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Hundreds of young people with  mental health problems in New Jersey are being held for long  periods at detention centers for young offenders where they are  at risk of suicide, according to a new report.
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High school students in New Jersey were smoking, drinking, doing drugs and having sex less in 2005 than high school students in 2001, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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Inmates were severely beaten, cells were ransacked and set on fire, and a female librarian was trapped with dozens of convicts during a riot last summer at a privately run prison, according to a state report released Tuesday.
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A previously undisclosed Pentagon report concluded that the three terrorism suspects held at a brig in South Carolina were subjected to months of isolation, and it warned that their "unique" solitary confinement could be viewed as violating U.S. detention standards.
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A confidential U.S. Army report  warned of abuse of Iraqi detainees by the CIA and other U.S.  military forces in December 2003, more than a month before  mistreatment at the Abu Ghraib prison was uncovered, The  Washington Post reported Wednesday.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross found &quot;cruel, inhumane and degrading&quot; treatment of detainees at the US military prison in GuantÃ¡namo
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Stay offline or face 18 months in jail, $10,000 fine Convicted sex offenders who used websites to help them commit their crimes are to be banned from using the internet under a tough new measure signed into New Jersey law yesterday.â¦
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The high number of preventable injuries in children is a 'disgrace', a report has warned.
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In Camden, N.J., the stigma of being seen as a snitch prevents many from talking about even the worst crimes.
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An American Army report released Wednesday has found that US military personnel and contractors were involved in prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to a greater extent than was previously thought.
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A counselor who was taken hostage and raped by an inmate in July harshly criticized Delaware's Department of Correction, saying it is plagued by mismanagement and inadequate, often incompetent, staffing.
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In a troubling report on the execution of minors in Iran, Amnesty International said yesterday that at least 71 child offenders are on death row and more than 24 have been executed since 1990, more than in any other country.
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Researchers who studied prisoners in the former Yugoslavia reported on Monday that psychological torment and humiliation can inflict as much terror and trauma as physical torture.
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A government report is highly critical of how a school managed allegations of sexual abuse against young boys.
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Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp contend they were wrongly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, their lawyer said Monday.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Videotapes of riot squads subduing troublesome terror suspects at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay show the guards punching some detainees, tying one to a gurney for questioning, and forcing a dozen to strip from the waist down, according to a secret report. One squad was all female, traumatizing some Muslim prisoners.
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More than 140 sex offenders convicted in New Jersey had profiles on the networking Web site MySpace, the state's attorney general said on Tuesday.