Legislation headed to the Indiana House would allow 12-year-olds to be sent to the Department of Correction for crimes that include attempted robbery.

An IU School of Medicine professor will receive $4.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the issue of drug overdoses among young people who have been involved in the criminal justice system.

The county's juvenile court will collaborate with Valparaiso-based Great Lakes Labs to offer self-styled pharmacogenetic tests to youths in the criminal justice system.

Marion County prosecutors want to try a 15-year-old Indianapolis boy as an adult in last week's fatal shootings of two teenage siblings.

An effort to change Indiana law so that children as young as 12 could face attempted murder charges in adult court has failed in the state Legislature.

Current state statute does not allow 12- and 13-year-olds charged with attempted murder to be sent to adult court - Indiana lawmakers introduced a bill to change that.

As a juvenile in the DOC, he'll be expected to complete a set of programs. The juvenile's release is contingent on the programs' completion, not a mandated court-ordered length of time.

The Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments Friday in a case that raises questions about what avenues juveniles have for seeking relief if they think their cases weren't handled properly.

State officials say no one is serving a life-without-parole sentence for crimes committed as a juvenile.

Filmmaker Karen Grau of Calamari Productions spent six years following a jailed Indiana teenager who couldn't read or write and had no family, guardian or legal counsel.