Punishment provides immediate, visible results, while empowering youth requires patience, understanding and time.

More than two dozen detention officers at a Los Angeles-area juvenile correctional facility face criminal charges for ...

The California attorney general's office said a review of six months of CCTV video recordings inside Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall turned up 69 so-called "gladiator fights." (Allen J. Schaben / Los ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County on Monday agreed to pay $2.7 million to a teenager who was attacked by at least six other young people at a juvenile detention center in so-called “gladiator ...

It has been revealed that the skeletal remains of a man from Roman-era Britain show he was bitten by a large cat like a lion, meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator ...