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Delinquency and Prevention

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Delinquency and Prevention Editorial- New York Times Published: April 9, 2009 The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency and Prevention Act of 1974, now up for Congressional reauthorization, provided states and localities with money, training and technical assistance for badly needed delinquency prevention programs and greatly expanded protections for children who ended up in custody. Unfortunately, those protections have been seriously eroded since the early 1990s, when states began sentencing more and more children to adult jails. Those young people are at high risk of being raped, battered or pushed to suicide. The numbers show that once they are jailed with adults, they are much more likely to commit violent crimes as adults and become career criminals...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).