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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.
1 mar 2023 · The most recent Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (2019) found that the post-adjudication placement rate for Black youth was 3.6 times the rate for non-Hispanic white youth. For Tribal youth, the correctional confinement rate was three times that of white youth.
9 lis 2023 · The twelve jurisdictions that employed this approach in a recent demonstration project reduced correctional placements by far more than the national average; and rates fell as much or more for Black youth than for the total youth population.
14 sie 2024 · In 2022, 5 1,900 people under 18-years-old were held in an adult jail and 437 were serving sentences in an adult prison, representing an 84% decline from the peak year, 1997, when 14,500 youth were held in these facilities.
Youth incarceration in Ohio has declined over the past 15 years: the average daily youth population in youth correctional facilities fell from 1,679 in 2005 to 530 in 2019 (figure 1).7 Moreover, the state’s youth parole population has fallen 85 percent between 2005 and 2019 (from 1,663 to 245). FIGURE 1.
27 lut 2018 · From 1990 to 1999, youth jail populations increased by 311%, peaking at 9,458. That number then began to decline, culminating in a 2016 population of 3,700, still far more than the already-high 1990 number.
Enacted in 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act is the principal federal law that addresses sexual violence in juvenile and adult confinement facilities. The law created the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission and charged it with developing standards for the elimination of prison rape and sexual misconduct.
