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Juvenile Incarceration

Nationally, on any given night, approximately 81,000 youth are confined to juvenile facilities and 10,000 children are held in adult jails and prisons. Approximately 1 in 10 young male high school dropouts is incarcerated or in juvenile detention. For African Americans, that number is 1 in 4. Research shows that just over two million youth under the age of 18 were arrested in 2008. Of these two million, about 95 percent had not been accused of violent crimes. In 2010, of the nearly 100,000 youth under the age of 18 who were serving time in a juvenile residential placement facility, 26 percent had been convicted of property crimes only, such as burglary, arson, or theft. Access to education both stems the tide of incarceration and improves inmates chances of re-acclimating to society after their release.

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“A child’s brain begins to develop before birth and continues into their mid-20s. If they are incarcerated before they are fully developed while their brains are ripe for learning, what happens? The question is what does incarceration teach these children? They are not being trained to use judgement and to make good decisions. They are instead being trained to depend on others for all decisions, including the basics of where to go, when to eat, what to wear. They are also learning to be alert and afraid at all times for danger that they are powerless to escape.“

Pensacola News Journal

November 6, 2018

Juvenile IncarcerationPhillip ReevesNovember 6, 2018Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola, FloridaComment

Juvenile Incarceration

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