LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Office of Inspector General of Nebraska Child Welfare (OIG) released its annual report on the use of juvenile room confinement in the state’s juvenile facilities on Monday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - The 16-year-old won’t tell his mom much about the days he spends locked alone in a room. He falls silent when his mother, Richetta Lowman, brings it up over the ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - Nebraska juvenile detention and rehabilitation centers are using room confinement more frequently and for longer periods of time, according to an annual report from the state ...

BATON ROUGE, La. – Legislation with the goal of ending solitary confinement for juveniles advanced out of a House committee Wednesday following testimony of a Bossier City woman whose grandson died by ...

NEWSWATCH SEVEN. ALL RIGHT, ALEX, THANK YOU. MORE YOUNG NEBRASKANS ARE BEING PUT IN JUVENILE CONFINEMENT. THAT’S WHAT THE STATE’S CHILD WELFARE WATCHDOG SUSPECTS AFTER A NEW REPORT. WELL, DIFFERENT ...

Isolation. Timeout. Lockdown. The hole. Solitary confinement goes by many names, and it can be employed as arbitrarily as the language used to define it. “There is no single standard for anything in ...

The practice, officially called room confinement, is needed in some cases to keep staff and other children in custody safe, correctional administrators say. But solitary is known to have harmful ...

The 16-year-old won’t tell his mom much about the days he spends locked alone in a room. He falls silent when his mother, Richetta Lowman, brings it up over the phone or when she drives from Omaha to ...