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Researchers have found that incarcerated youth engage in self-injurious behaviors at a rate two to four times higher than the general youth population. [21] Furthermore, prison administrative policy often intensifies the risk by responding to suicidal threats in ways that endanger the detainees, such as putting them in solitary confinement. [22]
Female incarceration rates by country and US state. Per 100,000 female population of all ages. Incarcerated females of all ages (where the data are available). From a 2018 report with latest available data. From the source report: "This graph shows the number of women in state prisons, local jails, and federal prisons from each U.S. state per ...
Out of more than 300 institutions surveyed, a YSI detention center in Georgia had the highest rate of youth alleging sexual assaults in the country, according to a recent report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In Florida, where private contractors have in recent years taken control of all of the state’s 3,300 youth prison beds, YSI now ...
Between 2010-2022, Black children account for nearly 60% of youth arrests despite representing roughly 18% of the population, according to the University of Miami’s study commissioned by MDEAT.
The Prison Policy Initiative broke down those numbers, finding that, relative to their share of the U.S. population, "black and American Indian youth are over represented in juvenile facilities while white youth are under represented.", [61] Black youth comprise 14% of the national youth population, but "43% of boys and 34% of girls in juvenile ...
Researchers from The Sentencing Project hailed the downward trends as a positive step toward reducing mass incarceration and weakening the […] The post Report: Black imprisonment rates drop 70 ...
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Blacks accounted for 39.4% of the prison and jail population in 2009, while non-Hispanic Whites were 34.2%, and Hispanics (of any race) 20.6%. The incarceration rate of Black males was over six times as high as White males, with a rate of 4,749 per 100,000 US residents. [149] [150] [151]
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.