“Safer at Home.” It’s a slogan of choice for the mandatory confinement measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. But it’s not true for everyone. As the world’s families hunker down, ...

Giddings State School in Giddings, Texas, is one of five Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities found to have violated the constitutional rights of child prisoners in a Department of Justice ...

Listening to legislative testimony about a 7-year-old boy in crisis who was restrained face down on a school floor tests the heart. Watching a grown man choke up at his memory of being dragged through ...

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Ed Mercurio-Sakwa, shown here at a press conference in 2017, said the Emerge Center Agains Domestic Abuse hotline has seen an uptick in calls in the last few weeks. He worries stay at home orders to ...

Responses to coronavirus will increase abusers' ability to isolate victims and reduce ability of social workers and other practitioners to identify and tackle problem, say experts Photo: antic/Fotolia ...

DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — More than a dozen victims have come forward to one of the attorneys on the Paul Dyal case since the story broke last week. RELATED: Jacksonville pastor, 2 others arrested in child ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. “Safer at Home.” It’s a slogan of choice for ...