Texas Juvenile System Is Still Lacking, Critics Say
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DALLAS, Dec. 16 -- Nearly 10 months after reports of inmate abuse first surfaced, not everyone agrees with claims of progress in reforming the agency that oversees the Texas juvenile prison system.
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When state legislators passed a law last month requiring that 17-year-olds be tried as adults, they hoped the reduced cost of providing for adult prisoners rather than juveniles would save the state about $3.6 million.
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Samuel Allen III, a 5-year-old autistic boy from Trenton who was scalded to death in February, might have been spared if the state had been able to provide overnight child care and other services
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NEW YORK  - The nation's most respected  treatment programs for teen drug abusers may frequently fall  short of what's necessary for effective treatment, a new study  suggests.
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Lawmakers outraged by allegations of sexual abuse of juvenile inmates and a coverup within the Texas Youth Commission promised to hold officials accountable and hinted they might try to take over the troubled agency.
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SEGUIN - After nearly six weeks of testimony in Austin, District Judge John Dietz ruled the current funding system for Texas schools unconstitutional and gave the state one year to come up with a better plan.
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It may not be the foundation of youth, but nothing has replaced it yet.
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The government has made little progress in bringing child sex abusers to justice, a  charity claims.
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Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn's reputation as a watchdog for the health and education of Texas children is summed up in a needlepoint decoration in her office: "One Ticked Off Grandma." Strayhorn may try to add another job to her resume &#151; governor.
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A Welsh assembly review brands the failings in the provision of special needs education a 'blight on young lives'
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Schools alone cannot improve the achievement of pupils from poor backgrounds, a report says.
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The death of Nixzmary Brown, 7, in Brooklyn last January demanded a reckoning but time appears to be standing still in court.
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Heating up: What's wrong with the way Shelby County's Juvenile Court works? The debate over adding a second judge to the court has brought long-simmering issues to a boil. V1  Behind bars: Presidential hopeful Sen.
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Hundreds of children held in juvenile detention facilities in New Jersey are there illegally, kept for months without basic medical care in locked quarters that are severely overcrowded and
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Proposition 36, the voter-enacted law that substitutes treatment for jail time for low-risk drug offenders, fails to provide adequate treatment for those it serves, according to a study published today.
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Advocacy groups for immigrant families and the Department of Homeland Scurity are at odds over detention facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania that critics argue are inhumanely housing adults and young children in jail-like conditions.
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WASHINGTON -- Nearly four in five young people arrested for juvenile crimes are involved with alcohol or drugs, and few are getting treatment, a study of the juvenile justice system finds.