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They further stated that the ruling was a reflection of systemic racism in the judicial system and other over-criminalization of Black youth. [3] [6] Grace is a Black teenage girl in a predominantly white school district with racial disparities in juvenile justice outcomes. [2]
Juvenile detention totals from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. [4] Juvenile convicts working in the fields in a chain gang, photo taken circa 1903. The system that is currently operational in the United States was created under the 1974 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.
In May 2020, a 15-year-old Black female student with ADHD in Michigan was sent to a juvenile detention center for not turning in her online homework. The juvenile court concluded that her failure to submit her homework violated her probation and sentenced her to 78 days in juvenile detention.
He was sent to the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center, which sits right in the middle of the historically Black east side Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood, for a firearm charge. “I have ...
The death of a Black teenager at a Kansas juvenile detention center was foreshadowed five years earlier by a state The post Lawsuit: Death of Black teen at juvenile center foreshadowed appeared ...
Two young women say in a lawsuit they and other girls were abused, neglected, humiliated and deprived of health care, education and basic hygiene in 2022 at the state-run juvenile detention center ...
Girls Incarcerated: Young and Locked Up is an American documentary television series released on Netflix on March 2, 2018, that initially followed the teenage inmates of the Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility in Madison, Indiana which has since been closed down.
A recent report shows that up to 80 percent of girls in juvenile detention have been victims or sexual and physical abuse.