Nelson Mandela wrote, “there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” As attorneys defending juveniles in criminal custody and immigrants facing ...

The result has highlighted a two-ton elephant of a question: How exactly do you promote, let alone hit, a target no one has come close to achieving, while at the same time constructing a $232 million ...

Is there ever a time when we should give up on a child? That is the question posed Wednesday by King County Executive Dow Constantine. He has earmarked $4 million in an effort of “refusal to accept ...

Vowing a “refusal to accept any kid as a lost cause,” King County Executive Dow Constantine unveiled a Roadmap to Zero Youth Detention at a Wednesday news conference. Flanked by county officials, ...

It's King County's white whale, a promise and a term batted around without much explanation of what it even means. Last September, King County Executive Dow Constantine received a comprehensive report ...

The Seattle City Council will vote this month on a measure to spend more than half a million dollars on the development of alternatives to jailing children, following through on the September passage ...

As construction moves ahead on the new King County youth detention center at 12th and Alder in the Central District, anti-incarceration activists continue the fight against the controversial project.

The U.S. military is preparing to “house and care for” as many as 12,000 members of migrant families, an escalation of the Pentagon’s role in the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy that ...

The Trump administration will have “zero tolerance” for those attacking federal officers or property after a local cop was shot near an ICE detention center in Texas, officials said Saturday. The ...

As construction moves ahead on the new King County youth detention center at 12th and Alder in the Central District, anti-incarceration activists continue the fight against the controversial project.