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Chart showing that the one-day count of youth in juvenile justice residential placement facilities (not adult facilities) has dropped by over 60 percent since 2000.

Data Source: See methodology section of the full report. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 1969)

This graph originally appeared in https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/youth2019.html.

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