{"id":7086,"date":"2018-02-27T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2018-02-27T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T22:09:27","slug":"youthpie2018press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/youthpie2018press\/","title":{"rendered":"New report, <i>Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie<\/i>, breaks down where youth are locked up in the U.S. and why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Easthampton, Mass. &#8211;<\/i><\/b> A map of juvenile justice in America would be daunting, covering 1,852 youth facilities of varying restrictiveness, not to mention thousands of youth held in adult prisons and jails. <a href=\"\/reports\/youth2018.html\"><i>Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie<\/i><\/a> offers a comprehensive view of this system, breaking down where and why justice-involved youth are locked up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"featureimage\"><a href=\"\/reports\/youth2018.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/reportthumbs\/youthpie_pressimage_cropped.png\" alt=\"Pie chart showing the number of youth locked up on a given day in the U.S. by facility and offense type.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a series of graphics, the report reveals how tens of thousands of youths who could be better served in their communities still end up in confinement. Far from confining &#8220;only those youth who are serious, violent, or chronic offenders,&#8221; as the juvenile justice system purports to do, this country:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>Locks up 8,500 youths every day for technical probation violations<\/li>\n<li>Detains over 9,000 youths before they&#8217;re even tried &#8211; and holds 900 in long-term secure facilities, essentially prisons, before they&#8217;ve been committed<\/li>\n<li>Locks up over 7,500 youths for other low-level offenses, including status offenses (behaviors for which an adult would not be prosecuted)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Youths held pretrial or for minor offenses comprise 1 in 3 held in confinement today &#8211; children and adolescents who could be released at virtually no threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>The report explores some of the worst harms of excessive youth confinement, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>Disproportionately punishing Black and Native youth, with disparities exceeding even those of the adult justice system<\/li>\n<li>Confining most youth in facilities indistinguishable from jails and prisons &#8211; or in actual adult jails and prisons<\/li>\n<li>Holding youth in &#8220;temporary&#8221; reception\/diagnostic centers for months or even years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The big-picture view offered by <a href=\"\/reports\/youth2018.html\"><i>Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie<\/i><\/a> suggests opportunities for immediate reform, such as transferring youth to community-based programs and drastically curtailing pretrial detention. &#8220;For advocates working to find alternatives to incarceration,&#8221; says report author Wendy Sawyer, &#8220;ending youth confinement should be a top priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/youth2018.html\">Read the full report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of graphics, we explain how tens of thousands of youth who could be better served in their communities still end up in confinement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[46],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10043,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/10043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}