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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.

A glimpse of a better life: An apartment and a head start for young men just out of juvenile prison

“Wimbish and his 24-hour-a-day staff run the Tidewater Youth Services Commission's apartment living program, which teaches young men just out of Bon Air — or a state commitment to a local detention center — how to live on their own. They learn to cook, keep a home clean, budget and get along with others. (They don't know their roommates, who are fellow program participants, beforehand.) The apartments are contracted and paid for by the Department of Juvenile Justice. The programs serves eight people at any one time for periods of six months to a year each.“

The Virginian-Pilot

August 18, 2019

Diversion ProgramsPhillip ReevesAugust 18, 2019The Virginian Pilot, Virginia, Virginia Beach, Tidewater Youth Services CommissionComment

Juvenile Incarceration

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