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We incarcerate children at a higher rate than any other developed country. Kids make mistakes — sometimes large, sometimes small. And every day in America, they can be locked up in stark...
In 2020, the imprisonment rate was 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents, the lowest since 1992. From 2010 to 2020, the sentenced imprisonment rate for U.S. residents fell 37% among blacks; 32% among Hispanics; 32% among Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Other Pacific Islanders; 26% among whites; and 25% among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Racial disparities. Employee abuse. Follow the path of America’s kids in the justice system. “Kids Imprisoned,” a major investigation into juvenile justice, is the 2020 project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program.
14 gru 2021 · The prison populations of California, Texas, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons each declined by more than 22,500 from 2019 to 2020, accounting for 33% of the total prison population decrease. In 2020, the imprisonment rate was 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents, the lowest since 1992.
14 sie 2024 · In 2020, roughly one in 14 youth (7%) referred to juvenile court were committed to a placement facility, the juvenile system’s equivalent of imprisonment. In 2021, youth were committed 35,900 times for delinquency offenses (which are criminal acts when conducted by an adult), an 80% decline since 1999, the peak year.
4 maj 2023 · Key Findings. The number of juveniles incarcerated in all U.S. adult prisons or jails declined from a peak of 10,420 in 2008 to a low of 2,250 in 2021 (figure 1). In 2021, local jails had custody of 1,960 juveniles while state and federal adult prisons held 290.
23 paź 2024 · Crime & Law Enforcement. Prisoners in the United States - Statistics & Facts. Ironically, it is the so-called land of the free that houses the highest prison population per capita in the OECD.
