From the abstract: “Roughly one in four juveniles arrested in the U.S. spend time in a detention center prior to their court date. To study the consequences of this practice for youth, we link the universe of individual public school records in Michigan to juvenile and adult criminal justice records. Using a combination of exact…
From the abstract: “Roughly one in four juveniles arrested in the U.S. spend time in a detention center prior to their court date. To study the consequences of this practice for youth, we link the universe of individual public school records in Michigan to juvenile and adult criminal justice records. Using a combination of exact…
Bringing More Teens Home: Raising the Age Without Expanding Secure Confinement in the Youth Justice System
This report from The Sentencing Project highlights “raise the age” legislative successes across the country, underscoring that the use of youth confinement is not a necessary result of these legislative shifts. For the nine states that implemented raise the age legislation, only New York, North Carolina, and Louisiana added juvenile facilities that are still operating,…
On March 20, 2014, the DOJ filed a Statement of Interest in a federal conditions lawsuit on behalf young people under the age of 18 confined in the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging violations of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). The DOJ emphasizes that “[s]tate correctional facilities. . . are subject to both the…
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