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MA: Youth lockup doesn't work and isn't fair

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"...why Latino youths are five times more likely, and African American youths eight times more likely, than Caucasian youths to be confined in a detention or correctional facility?" Friday, May 23, 2008 Youth lockup doesn?t work and isn?t fair Clive McFarlane Worcester Telegram According to an American Civil Liberties Union report released last week titled ?Locking up our Children,? Massachusetts is detaining 5,000 to 6,000 youths in secure facilities each year, many of whom do not appear to be high-risk. Last year, for example, 78 percent of the young people were charged with misdemeanors or low-level felonies, and more than 80 percent of them were eventually released back into their communities after spending an average of 25 days in lockup awaiting arraignment...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).