PRISON YARD AT 14
Channel: WRONG TO STRONG
Date: 14/04/2021

#JUVENILES #ADULTPRISON #CHICAGO
Juveniles in the adult system
Following the tough-on-crime era, the practice of trying youth as adults has become much more common in recent years. Between 1990 and 2010, the number of juveniles in adult jails went up by nearly 230 percent.

Around 250,000 youth are tried, sentenced or incarcerated as adults in the United States every year. On any given day, around 10,000 juveniles are housed in adult jails and prisons – 7,500 in jails and 2,700 in prisons, respectively.

Of the juveniles held in adult jails, most of them are awaiting trial, as 39 states permit or require that youth charged as adults be held in an adult jail before they are tried. Though as many as a half of them will not be convicted or will be sent back to the juvenile justice system, most will have spent at least one month in the adult jail, and one in five of them will have spent over six months there.

The juveniles held in adult prisons have been convicted as adults; this practice’s laws and standards vary wildly by state. The majority of youth prosecuted in adult court are charged with nonviolent offenses.

Federal law states that youth transferred from juvenile facilities to the adult system must be separated by sight and sound from adult inmates. Still, many states have either refused to comply with these laws (and forfeited federal grant money) or stated that they would comply only to stall on progress.

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