juvenile justice

Family Center for Juvenile Justice Director David Parker reported Monday the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs extended the center’s tentative probationary status through the end of the year.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features stories on the Tulsa mayoral race, the Tulsa County juvenile detention facility and the Indigenous Roots Symposium.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features stories on the crisis at the Tulsa County Family Center for Juvenile Justice, the underfunded Langston University and a Tulsa BMX Olympian.

Lawyers for youth detained in the Tulsa County Family Center for Juvenile Justice are asking a Muskogee federal judge to remove their clients from the facility while a suit accusing detention officers of sexual assault remains in litigation.

The arrests of the three middle schoolers came last month. Experts say young kids are increasingly exposed to hate ideologies, leaving communities to figure out how to respond.

In a new book, Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, looks at the evolution of the juvenile justice system in America — primarily through people, not statistics.

The two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated the scheme have been ordered to pay hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history.

Many states have no minimum age, but there's a push to raise it to a common international standard of 14. Experts say diversion programs should be provided without the criminalization of children.

The Oklahoma County Detention Center will lose its state certification to detain minors on Friday after health department inspections found the jail didn’t meet state standards.

Juvenile incarceration is down, but many young people still in facilities have gone months without seeing their families.