South Carolina

The Senate today advanced President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" which is expected to cost millions of Americans access to Medicaid.

Mike Leach asks: When oversight is a maze of disconnected regulations, are we protecting children, or making it harder for the system to work?

Staff misconduct, fights, long cell stays and overcrowding continue to plague the largest youth lockup in Washington state.

South Carolina could join the many states that tap federal foster care funds to help establish extended foster care.

The leader of South Carolina’s juvenile justice agency is stepping down after more than four years running the long-embattled department.

The head of South Carolina’s Department of Juvenile Justice took a blow last week when the state Senate gave him a vote of no confidence.

Lawsuit comes from foster parent denied because she was Catholic By The Imprint staff reports A Catholic mother’s lawsuit alleging bedrock religious discrimination by South Carolina’s largest child-placement agency with the blessing of state and federal officials may proceed, a federal judge ruled this week, rejecting calls to throw out her case.

Mike Leach can’t resist a good court-enforced child welfare settlement. He spent about 12 years working for Tennessee’s child welfare agency, the Department of Children’s Services, rising through the ranks until he became the director of performance and quality improvement.

South Carolina’s child welfare system is struggling to meet its goals under a class-action lawsuit settlement brought by Children’s Rights, a nonprofit litigator based in New York City. Tennessee recently exited such a settlement with the same organization after a nearly two-decade roller coaster ride.