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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.
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).
31 mar 2022 · Children in confinement are often in their teens (13–17) and understand themselves as ‘youth’ or ‘young people’. In this article, we use the terms children and young people interchangeably to acknowledge both their unique legal status and apply a terminology consistent with emic categorization.
Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003. Enacted in 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act is the principal federal law that addresses sexual violence in juvenile and adult confinement facilities.
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.
Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie Prison Policy Initiative, February, 2018 “This report provides an introductory snapshot of what happens when justice-involved youth are held by the state: where they are held, under what conditions, and for what offenses.”
1 kwi 2013 · It may be likely that for youth offenders confined in adult prisons, particularly if juvenile inmates are integrated with prison population, there is a heightened degree of stress and potential threat in comparison to offenders imprisoned in juvenile justice settings.
