Dan Glaun’s article quotes public officials such as a state legislator and the chief of a district attorney’s juvenile unit who claim they don’t understand why this increase has occurred.

A juvenile was flown to the hospital Thursday morning after being hit by a car while riding a bike in Candia, police said.

“What we know now is that the science doesn’t support prosecution of second graders.” DAWNE MITCHELL, who leads the Legal Aid Society’s juvenile rights practice, citing cognitive science ...

Fourteen lawmakers on Tuesday filed House Bill 228, a proposed “Incarcerated Children’s Bill of Rights,” aimed at the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice.

Now, children’s rights advocates say the state is failing to comply, as prosecutors are still asking for juvenile life without parole in more than 30 percent of all cases that have in recent ...