The Sangamon County Juvenile Detention is reopening after more than a year. The facility had been shut down after an armed teenager took another juvenile hostage and ...
A few moments later, the victim was surrounded by five juvenile inmates. Mavin, a detention officer, allegedly entered the pod at that point, apparently eating, and did nothing to de-escalate the ...
The Lawrence County jail will likely continue housing out-of-county juvenile offenders who are charged as adults as the number of them continues to grow.