Seven juveniles were arrested Thursday after Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies found them living without adults in an apartment at Arden Park on Vincent Road.

(The Center Square) — During Monday’s Caddo Parish Commission work session, newly reported numbers show a significant decrease in juvenile detention numbers since March 17. Parish ...

A juvenile detention officer repeatedly assaulted a 15-year-old inmate who’s accused of kicking his cell door when his calls for assistance “went unanswered,” Florida authorities said.

According to deputies, the incident occurred on March 11, 2025. A 15-year-old male inmate at the detention center, located at ...

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office’s new Juvenile Assessment Center is working to centralize and coordinate criminal justice efforts among young people.

For 2025, the juvenile detention center showed 34 new admissions just in January. The most common intake crime this year so far is domestic abuse battery usually involving a child committing acts ...

(The Center Square) — The Caddo Parish Juvenile Justice and Related Services Committee met this week to discuss juvenile crime statistics for 2024 and 2025 and what is being implemented to lower ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (KLFY) — When St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard listed his goals for 2025, he made a priority of reducing the cost of inmate spending. While part of that has to ...

Legislators also set up two other juvenile justice districts in 2023 with an eye toward increasing the number of spaces available for incarcerated children and teens. The Acadiana Juvenile Justice ...

The Acadiana Juvenile Justice District would be expected to run a detention center for Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary and Vermilion parishes.

HAMMOND — A former guard at the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center has been arrested following an investigation that uncovered inappropriate communications with a juvenile inmate. Taylor ...