Records provide the most robust look yet at why and how children ended up in one of ICE’s rare youth detention facilities.
juvenile detention
Since when is being a teenager a crime?
A comic explores two diverging paths of juvenile justice in Wyoming and South Dakota.
Juvenile (in)justice
Wyoming locks up kids at one of the highest rates in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.
The bad place
The graffiti told a chilling story: “This is a bad place.” More than 40 states have sent children to facilities run by Sequel Youth & Family Services, despite dozens of cases of abuse.
The jail tapes in the dumpster
A murder conviction sent Myon Burrell to prison for life when he was a teenager. An investigative reporter dug into what seemed a hopeless case. What she found helped free him.
Juvenile (in)justice
Wyoming locks up kids at the highest rate in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.
Pushed out
Black girls are being pushed out of school and into jails at alarming rates, but this issue often is overlooked.
Virginia drops felony charges against sixth-grade boy with autism
A Virginia juvenile court has dropped charges against Kayleb Moon-Robinson, a sixth-grader with autism whose rough arrest on felony charges was the focus of a Center for Public Integrity investigation into questionable school policing.