In 1993, five women in Vermilion County — all attorneys — sat down and came up with a plan to help young people who'd broken the law to get back on track and avoid a criminal record. "Without any ...

The Kenosha teen who admitted responsibility for causing a shooting scare at Roosevelt Elementary School learned his fate on ...

Criminal justice advocates welcomed a Senate bill that would sharply reduce the number of crimes for which a juvenile could ...

Discussions around legislation to stop automatically charging minors as adults for certain crimes morphed into a debate over ...

(ABC 6 News) – On Thursday, Alex Allen Schneider was sentenced to 5 years in prison for raping a juvenile girl. In 2023, Rochester police received a report that Schneider had raped a 14-year-old in ...

Convicted murderer Todd Hyung-Rae Tarselli, who previously won a re-sentencing hearing due to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ...

Jeremy Rose has spent most of his life in prison. He was sentenced to life in 1995, when he was 17, after pleading guilty to participating in the slayings of two elderly people. He was still a kid ...

Washington's Senate Bill 5296 is igniting intense debate over the future of the state’s juvenile justice system and ...

The new law allows extended supervision of serious violent offenders by juvenile court under certain circumstances. Commonly referred to as “blended sentencing,” the new law “blends” a ...

A 13-year-old Kenosha boy charged with making terroristic threats after entering an elementary school carrying a duffel bag ...

KOMO News reached out to the King County Public Defenders about the unlawful firearm possession measure. Matt Sanders, ...

The attempted murder of a Boone County deputy has been resolved, with a teenager headed to prison for 13 years.