{"id":11595,"date":"2020-05-14T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11595"},"modified":"2020-05-14T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:23:31","slug":"study-juvenile-incarcerations-drop-in-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11595","title":{"rendered":"Study: juvenile incarcerations drop in coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Texas Juvenile Justice Department temporarily suspended new admissions to facilities this month due to the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/strong><\/em> Photo: texascjc.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By ROZ BROWN<\/strong>
Texas News Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the U.S. last month, the number of young people in local secure detention centers fell by 24%, according to a new survey by The Annie E. Casey Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some juvenile justice experts would like to see the reduced rates become permanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas was included in a survey of juvenile justice agencies in 30 states that showed the decrease in juvenile detention was driven primarily by a steep decline in admissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alycia Castillo, a youth justice policy analyst with the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, says the population of one facility in Austin went from 40 youth to 13 within a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd we honestly believe that youth are best served outside of a cell \u2014 within their communities, with their families, schools, with behavioral providers for issues that are related to mental and behavioral health,\u201d she stresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Casey Foundation survey also showed last month\u2019s percentage reduction in youth detention across the surveyed jurisdictions equaled the entire seven-year decline from 2010 to 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nate Balis, director of The Casey Foundation\u2019s Juvenile Justice Strategy Group, says he\u2019s hopeful the country can emerge from the pandemic with a juvenile detention population that includes only those young people who pose an immediate community safety risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany young people are held in secure detention because they\u2019ve broken rules of probation, because they\u2019ve committed a minor offense in the community, because they\u2019ve been arrested at school,\u201d he points out. \u201cAnd so, all of these things end up being the reasons that systems sometimes use secure detention, even though the point should be one that\u2019s focused on community safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castillo adds that in Texas, youth also are disproportionately detained by race and ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are kids who come from backgrounds of typically extreme trauma, extreme poverty and a lot of kids who are disproportionately in communities of color,\u201d she points out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s estimated that nationwide, 218,000 young people are admitted to detention facilities each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the U.S. last month, the number of young people in local secure detention centers fell by 24%, according to a new survey by The Annie E. Casey Foundation. Some juvenile justice experts would like to see the reduced rates become permanent. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11596,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions\/11596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}