Juvenile Justice

2022 law extends rights to children, but prosecutors have since claimed that it hurts criminal investigations.

Moore unveiled three bills he’ll seek regarding public safety on Tuesday.

The teen, now 16, shot Timothy Reynolds in July 2022 after Reynolds approached him and other squeegee workers wielding a baseball bat.

A new report by the state Department of Juvenile Services highlighted stark racial disparities in how the justice system treats youth.

More than 6% of Maryland’s prison population is serving time for crimes committed as children, according to a new report.

Baltimore County leaders say they are investigating conditions and practices at the county jail after the Maryland Office of the Public Defender decried the jail’s treatment of juveniles in a letter last week.

Children charged as adults and held at the Baltimore County jail are held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day with limited access to showers, medical care or laundry, according to the Office of the Public Defender.

In his new book, the UBalt law professor argues that our criminal justice system is corruptly structured to earn revenue from the processing and incarceration of children and the poor.

Maryland has 33 crimes that automatically land children in adult courts. After 13 years of failed attempts, a group of advocates and state lawmakers hope to change that.

Kristin Henning, a Georgetown Law professor and director of its Juvenile Justice Clinic, discusses her new book examining how Black teens in America are stigmatized as potential criminals.