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Juvenile Detention Explained
How many children are in detention centers in the United States? What is the long-term impact of juvenile detention? This resource from the Casey Foundation has the answers.
Juvenile detention is a crucial early phase in the juvenile justice process, the point at which the courts decide whether to confine a young person pending their court hearing or while awaiting placement into a correctional or treatment facility rather than allowing the young person to remain at home or perhaps in an alternative supervision program. Every year, an estimated 195,000 young people are admitted to detention facilities nationwide, and approximately 15,600 are held in detention on any given night.
Placement into a locked detention center pending court significantly increases the odds that youth will be found delinquent and committed to corrections facilities and can seriously damage their prospects for future success.
Yet many detained youth pose little or no threat to public safety.
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How many children are in detention centers in the United States? What is the long-term impact of juvenile detention? This resource from the Casey Foundation has the answers.
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Detention is a pivotal decision point in the juvenile justice process. Even a short turn in confinement can have an outsized influence on court outcomes, and it can also mean profound and potentially lifelong negative consequences for the young people involved, according to research.
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Jurisdictions use pretrial confinement to ensure that young people who have been accused of an offense attend court hearings. Yet, a stay in pretrial juvenile detention increases a young person's likelihood of felony recidivism by 33% and misdemeanor recidivism by 11%. Read the new study.