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Study: Racism and Over-incarceration Pervade Juvenile Detention

Loaded on May 24, 2018

Filed under: Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons. Locations: Massachusetts, United States of America.

A 2018 study has uncovered a troubling racial-disparity gap in youth confinement.

“Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie” was published Feb. 27, 2018, by the Prison Policy Initiative, a Massachusetts-based nonpartisan nonprofit.

The study analyzed data gathered in the 2015 Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement to provide what Wendy ...

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