Donald Trump made a lot of campaign promises on his long path toward the presidency. But one of his signature issues from the very beginning was…

For the past few years, a campaign has been building to change how Michigan handles 17-year-olds who commit crimes.As it stands now, those 17-year-olds…

Michelle Gach’s son was taken from her home nearly two years ago, when he was three year old. Police took him after he was found alone in a park across…

Today I got an update on a story we reported here in January. It's the story of Michelle Gach, a mother whose parental rights were terminated by a judge…

Yesterday we heard from an ex-con about what it was like for him to transition from life behind bars to life on the outside. He says having a mentor…

How do you navigate life on the outside after you’ve been locked up in prison for years? That’s a question more than 6,000 federal inmates recently faced…

Michigan has more reasons now than ever before to consider juvenile justice reform. Something to add to the list: a report released this week by the U.S.…

If you're 17 and you commit a crime in Michigan, you are automatically sentenced as an adult. You can't even vote yet, and you're sentenced as an adult.…

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions today that, in a practical matter, mean more to low-income families than to anyone else.There is the Affordable…

By now, many of you know about the tragic story out of the Bronx this weekend. Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island in 2010 when he was 16 years old.…