Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 18—Decatur Youth Services Director Brandon Watkins resigned Friday after being placed on administrative leave. Watkins ...

The new detention center for girls on the Mt. Meigs campus of the Alabama Department of Youth Services looks like any new high school - classrooms with smart boards, airy hallways flooded with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 19—Bruce Jones has returned from retirement to work as interim director of Decatur Youth Services after the apparent ...

The state DYS worker who previously spent time in prison for motor vehicle homicide before urging Boston police officers to call his “boss, the female governor,” following a recent arrest has been ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Juvenile Justice Working Group met for the second time on Tuesday, where staff members at Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS) spoke to the group about staffing shortages and ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Hundreds of teens under supervision of the Department of Youth Services have escaped from facilities over the past several years, according to records obtained by the WBZ I-Team. While ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) - Arkansas state officials credit a more hands-on approach for a drop in the number of kids in county-run juvenile detention centers and residential programs. According ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump identifies the need for the Department of Youth Services (DYS) to take measures to effectively manage its 51B report resolution process. Report ...

As social worker James Hillman lay unconscious and without a pulse after an assault by a disgruntled juvenile at a state Department of Youth Services lockup in Springfield, city police were initially ...

Weeks before the bridge to Boston's Long Island was closed in October — forcing the shutdown of social service programs there — another program on the island stopped operating for different reasons.