The state needs to walk a difficult tightrope: reducing the number of inmates in prison while keeping dangerous offenders off the streets.

There are plenty of reasons to keep juvenile offenders away from the adult prison population.

A new study offers hope for keeping young offenders out of prison.

Probation staff in Northumbria have helped score top marks for keeping offenders on the straight and narrow.

But few states are making equally strong efforts to keep youthful offenders from returning to prison once they are released.

Efforts should be directed not merely towards keeping offenders out of prison, but towards changing their attitudes to society.

That knowledge, he says, is often all that is needed to keep minor offenders from graduating to serious crimes.

They would have clear financial incentives to keep offenders away from crime.

Next came a wave of support for a civil commitment law that would keep such offenders locked up for longer periods.

She added that her agency had selected the Brownsville site, in part, to keep young offenders closer to their families.