Divesting from Youth Incarceration

Liz Ryan, an expert on youth justice policy, argues the case for reforming the US juvenile justice system in this blog post from The Hill. Ryan references one of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s recent reports from its series on youth deincarceration trends, which states that youth of color continue to be incarcerated at substantially higher rates than their white peers despite the overall trends.

Liz Ryan, an expert on youth justice policy, argues the case for reforming the US juvenile justice system in this blog post from The Hill. Ryan references one of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s recent reports from its series on youth deincarceration trends, which states that youth of color continue to be incarcerated at substantially higher rates than their white peers despite the overall trends.

To read NCCD’s youth deincarceration series, click here.