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19 gru 2019 · On any given day, over 48,000 youth in the United States are confined in facilities away from home as a result of juvenile justice or criminal justice involvement. Most are held in restrictive, correctional-style facilities, and thousands are held without even having had a trial.
26 mar 2021 · Juvenile detention is short-term confinement, primarily used after a youth has been arrested, but before a court has determined the youth’s innocence or guilt. Pretrial detention is appropriate only when a court believes a youth to be at risk of committing crimes or fleeing during court processing.
31 mar 2022 · Since the introduction of youth custody, almost no minors have been confined to correctional services. The legislation states that minors can be sent to prison if there are special circumstances (e.g. level of offence severity), which has concerned fewer than three young people every year.
Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2019 Prison Policy Initiative, December, 2019 “On any given day, over 48,000 youth in the United States are confined in facilities away from home as a result of juvenile justice or criminal justice involvement.”
In juvenile court, responses can include legal or mandated options, such as secure detention, secure confinement, transfer to the adult system, probation supervision, community-based programs, or nonsecure residential programs (Hockenberry and Puzzanchera, 2023).
1 mar 2023 · State-level data on recidivism consistently show that youth who are released from correctional confinement experience high rates of rearrest, new adjudications (in juvenile court) or convictions (in adult court), and reincarceration.
19 gru 2019 · Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2019 reveals failures in the juvenile justice system that mirror failures in the adult system, including: Unnecessary pretrial detention. On any given day, 9,500 youth – or 1 in 5 youth in confinement – are locked up before trial.
