August 17, 2024
WASHINGTON DC – “Youth Justice By the Numbers,” a new report released Thursday by The Sentencing Project, finds a 75 percent decline in youth held in juvenile facilities – 108,800 to 27,600 between 2000 and 2022.
The Sentencing Project is charging public opinion wrongly assumes that crime is increasing and youth offending is consistently violent, whereas most youth offenses are low-level and nonviolent.
https://davisvanguard.org/2024/08/the-sentencing-projects-new-report-refutes-public-assumption-youth-offending-increasing/