juvenile detention

Current Florida law requires kids being charged as adults to be held in regular jail while they wait for their trial. New federal standards that go into...

Florida is one of only three states that allows prosecutors to have the only say if a juvenile suspect is tried as an adult.The American Civil Liberties…

Governor Rick Scott is proposing a 10 percent pay raise for Florida’s juvenile detention and juvenile probation officers.

A top priority for Senate President Joe Negron aimed at decriminalizing adolescence passed its first committee hearing Monday, but not without some...

A Senate committee Thursday approved a plan aimed at ending years of legal battles between the state and counties about juvenile-detention costs.…

The long-term cost of incarcerating the nation's youth is $8 to $21 billion, according to a report out Tuesday. The Justice Policy Institute’s “Sticker...

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has canceled a contract with a controversial operator of a 40-bed residential facility in Santa Rosa County,…