Youth
Juvenile justice and the prison system's effect on children
- Most confined youth are held for non-person offenses, many for acts that are not "crimes" at all (Created: 2023)
- Nearly 10% of confined girls are held for status offenses such as "running away, truancy, and incorrigibility" (Created: 2023)
- Most people in state prison were first arrested as youth (Created: 2022)
- More than 1 in 3 people in state prison were first arrested before their 16th birthday (Created: 2022)
- Early experiences of homelessness and poverty among the 29 transgender respondents (Created: 2022)
- Criminal justice involvement began in youth for many trans people in state prison (Created: 2022)
- The juvenile justice system confines Native youth at a rate higher than the rates of white, Hispanic, and Asian youth combined (Created: 2021)
- For the lowest level offenses, the juvenile justice system confines Native and Black youth at 3 times the rate of white youth (Created: 2021)
- Arrest rates for most youth are falling, while Native youth arrests are on the rise (Created: 2021)
- Black youth are arrested far out of proportion to their share of all youth in the U.S. (Created: 2020)
- The juvenile justice system confines Black youth at over 4 times the rate of white youth (Created: 2020)
- For the lowest level offenses, Black and American Indian youth are confined at rates over 3 times the rate of white youth (Created: 2020)
- Youth in juvenile facilities, by age (Created: 2020)
- How many youths are locked up in the United States? (Created: 2019)
- Two-thirds of confined youth are in the most restrictive facilities (Created: 2019)
- How many youths are locked up for the most minor offenses? (Created: 2019)
- Racial disparities in LGBTQ youth homelessness and juvenile justice system confinement (Created: 2019)
- Incarceration for drug offense in different parts of the justice system (Created: 2018)
- How many youths are locked up for the most minor offenses? (detail) (Created: 2018)
- Nearly 16,000 youths are "detained" in juvenile facilities (Created: 2018)
- In the United States, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- Rate at which black juvenile offenders are given life without parole sentences to their white peers (Created: 2016)
- 82% of juveniles serving life without parole sentences are in just 9 states (Created: 2016)
- In Pennsylvania, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Michigan, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Louisiana, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Florida, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Mississippi, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In North Carolina, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Illinois, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Missouri, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- Most incarcerated youth are locked up for nonviolent offenses (Created: 2016)
- Young males incarcerated at very high rates (Created: 2012)
- In the modern world, only rogue nations execute juvenile offenders (Created: 2004)
- Juveniles in adult prisons, by race (Created: 2003)
- The one-day count of youth in juvenile justice "residential placement" facilities has dropped by over 60 percent since 2000 (Created: 1969)
