juvenile detention center News

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The death of a Black teenager at a Kansas juvenile detention center was foreshadowed five years earlier by a state inspection of the facility that noted systemic deficiencies in its handling of children with mental health …

An inmate flooded part of a western Pennsylvania juvenile detention center and some nearby offices by activating a fire sprinkler in his cell. Westmoreland County officials tell the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the incident happened about 4:30 p.m. Monday at the …