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When comparing juveniles and adults, juveniles are much more likely to refuse to talk to an attorney, even though it is the attorney's duty to help. When juveniles are asked if they trust their attorney, only 6.2% of juveniles related positively to disclosing information to their attorney. [36]
There are numerous statistics which illuminate the presence of the youth control complex: 95% of all juveniles sent to adult courts (tried as adults) are youth of color. [2] In California, youth of color are 2.5 times more likely than white kids to be tried as adults and 8.3 times more likely to be incarcerated by adult courts. [2]
Juvenile detention facilities are often overcrowded and understaffed. [16] The most infamous example of this trend is Cheltenham center in Maryland, which at one point crowded 100 boys into cottages sanctioned for a maximum capacity of 24, with only 3–4 adults supervising. Young people in these environments are subject to brutal violence from ...
Roughly 98% of the kids tried as adults in Florida were transferred from the juvenile system through the state’s “direct file” laws, which empower prosecutors to transfer a child to adult ...
At times, a juvenile offender who is initially charged in juvenile court will be waived to adult court, meaning that the offender may be tried and sentenced in the same manner as an adult. [7] "Once an adult, always an adult" provisions state that juveniles who are convicted of a crime in adult court will thereafter always be tried in adult ...
It cites both a decreasing youth population (−17% since 2000) and decreasing crime rates (−33% since 2000) as reasons to expect less crime from Baltimore's youth. The report also notes the existence of "reverse waivers", which allow adult courts to transfer youth to the juvenile detention system while retaining control of their case. [9]
Blended sentencing schemes simultaneously give youth an adult and a juvenile court sentence. Courts have an option to “stay,” or hit pause on, the adult court sentence until the youth turns 19 ...
Citing research into brain development, local legislator proposes to keep teens and young adults in juvenile justice system through their 20th year