FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Federal investigators will examine conditions in Kentucky's youth detention centers and whether the ...
Federal officials will investigate claims of excessive force by staff, prolonged and punitive isolation and inadequate ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a statewide investigation into Kentucky’s beleaguered youth detention facilities ...
On May 15, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an investigation into Kentucky’s eight juvenile detention facilities ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the conditions at eight of the youth detention centers and ...
A state law taking effect next month will require more kids charged with violent offenses to be held in Kentucky’s troubled ...
NEWPORT, Ky. (WKRC) - A former corrections officer is accused of sexually abusing two juvenile girls where he worked in ...
(ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — “We have not run away from this challenge, we’ve run right towards it,” said Governor Andy Beshear, ...
This comes amid a federal investigation into whether minors have been violently and sexually abused at Kentucky's youth ...
A former Kentucky juvenile corrections officer is in custody after failing to appear in court following allegations of sexual ...
The mood was celebratory as Kentucky and federal officials crowded into the Capitol Rotunda on a cold January day in 2001 to announce the end of five years of federal oversight of the state’s ...
For decades, state legislators and criminal justice advocates have worked to change the juvenile legal system, striving to ...