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Key Findings from America's Invisible Children: Latino Youth and the Failure of Justice

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Key Findings from America's Invisible Children: Latino Youth and the Failure of Justice: On any given day, close to 18,000 Latino youth are incarcerated in America. The majority of these youth are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses. Most Latino youth are held in juvenile detention facilities (41%) and juvenile long-term secure facilities (34%). However, one out of every four (24%) incarcerated Latino children is held in an adult prison or jail even though youth in adult facilities are in significant danger of suicide and rape. Latino youth are overrepresented in the U.S. justice system and receive harsher treatment than white youth. In order of rising disparities, Latino youth are 4% more likely than white youth to be petitioned, 16% more likely than white youth to be adjudicated delinquent, 28% more likely than white youth to be detained, 41% more likely than white youth to receive an out-of-home placement, 43% more likely than white youth to be waived to the adult system, and 40% more likely to be admitted to adult prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).