Author(s): The Sentencing Project
Published: July 15, 2021
Report Intro/Brief:
“Tribal youth were more than three times as likely to be detained or committed in juvenile facilities as their white peers, according to nationwide data collected in October 2019 and recently released. In 2010, Tribal youth’s incarceration rate was 2.9 times as high as their white peers. In 2019, that ratio grew to 3.3, a 14% increase.
There are 11 states with at least 8,000 Tribal youths, and Tribal youth are more likely to be in custody than white youth in all but two of these states: New Mexico and Texas.
Juvenile facilities, including 1,510 detention centers, residential treatment centers, group homes, and youth prisons held 36,479 youths as of October 2019. (These data do not include the 653 people under 18 in prisons at year-end 2019 or the estimated 2,900 people under 18 in jails at midyear 2019.) Between 2010 and 2019, juvenile placements fell by 48%. During these years, white youth placements declined faster than Tribal youth placements (48% vs. 39%), resulting in the growth of an already significant disparity.”
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