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Juvenile Detention Explained

Every day, thou­sands of young peo­ple in the Unit­ed States are held in juve­nile deten­tion facil­i­ties while their cas­es are han­dled in court. Despite steady declines over the past two decades, more than 15 , 000 young peo­ple were held in deten­tion cen­ters on any giv­en night in 2017 , the lat­est year for which fed­er­al data are available.

With so many young peo­ple mov­ing in and out of deten­tion cen­ters as they await legal actions on their cas­es, it’s worth ask­ing: What exact­ly is juve­nile deten­tion and how can being detained affect a young person?

What is juve­nile detention?

Juve­nile deten­tion is short-term con­fine­ment, pri­mar­i­ly used after a youth has been arrest­ed, but before a court has deter­mined the youth’s inno­cence or guilt. Pre­tri­al deten­tion is appro­pri­ate only when a court believes a youth to be at risk of com­mit­ting crimes or flee­ing dur­ing court pro­cess­ing. A small­er num­ber of young peo­ple are in deten­tion cen­ters after their case has been heard, while they are wait­ing for either a dis­po­si­tion or a place­ment after a disposition.

“ Juve­nile deten­tion should nev­er be nor­mal or rou­tine,” said Nate Balis, direc­tor of the Foundation’s Juve­nile Jus­tice Strat­e­gy Group. ​ “ In light of what we know about the neg­a­tive effects of deten­tion on young peo­ple and the con­tin­ued racial dis­par­i­ties that define juve­nile deten­tion in this coun­try, our sys­tems must explore every option and con­fine young peo­ple only in extra­or­di­nary cases.”

Nonethe­less, one in four delin­quen­cy cas­es in juve­nile court involved deten­tion in  2017 .

How many young peo­ple are in juve­nile deten­tion in Amer­i­ca and how long can a child be in juve­nile detention?

Nation­al­ly 195 , 000 young peo­ple were placed in deten­tion cen­ters in 2018 . The aver­age stay is 27  days, but even a short stay in juve­nile deten­tion can throw a youth off course .

What is a juve­nile deten­tion center?

A juve­nile deten­tion cen­ter gen­er­al­ly is a secure facil­i­ty oper­at­ed by local author­i­ties or the state. Accord­ing to the Office of Juve­nile Jus­tice and Delin­quen­cy Pre­ven­tion, ​ “ In all states, secure deten­tion space is pri­mar­i­ly used for tem­porar­i­ly hold­ing juve­niles while they await adju­di­ca­tion, dis­po­si­tion or place­ment elsewhere.”

How many juve­nile deten­tion cen­ters are there in the Unit­ed States?

There are 625 facil­i­ties that clas­si­fy them­selves as juve­nile deten­tion cen­ters across the Unit­ed States.

What do youth in juve­nile deten­tion cen­ters do while they’re detained?

What hap­pens in juve­nile deten­tion cen­ters day-to-day varies by facil­i­ty, but school-age youth must attend school. Youth are enti­tled to go out­doors reg­u­lar­ly, engage in phys­i­cal exer­cise, par­tic­i­pate in a range of recre­ation­al activ­i­ties and prac­tice their reli­gion. The rights of youth in deten­tion — such as the right to edu­ca­tion; med­ical and men­tal health care; due process; access to fam­i­lies, coun­sel and the courts; and safe and humane treat­ment — are guar­an­teed by the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion, fed­er­al laws, state con­sti­tu­tions and laws and case law deter­mined by the courts.

The Foun­da­tion has issued a  com­pre­hen­sive set of stan­dards for facil­i­ties in response to doc­u­ment­ed fail­ures to house youth safe­ly and humanely.

What’s the dif­fer­ence between a youth deten­tion cen­ter and cor­rec­tion­al facility?

The terms youth deten­tion cen­ter and youth cor­rec­tion­al cen­ter often are used inter­change­ably to describe res­i­den­tial facil­i­ties, but there is a clear dis­tinc­tion between them. Young peo­ple held in deten­tion are pre­sumed inno­cent unless and until they are adju­di­cat­ed in court. The pur­pose of a deten­tion cen­ter is tem­po­rary con­fine­ment while a young person’s case is being han­dled in court. By con­trast, cor­rec­tion­al facil­i­ties are longer-term place­ments for youth who have been adju­di­cat­ed as delin­quent and then ordered by a judge to be con­fined rather than super­vised in the community.

To com­plete the pic­ture, youth could be con­fined in deten­tion cen­ters for these rea­sons, as well:

• Their case has been adju­di­cat­ed, but they haven’t been sen­tenced yet (in oth­er words, await­ing disposition).
• They have been sen­tenced to out-of-home place­ment, but haven’t been trans­ferred yet to that place­ment (i.e., await­ing placement).
• They are await­ing a court hear­ing for alleged­ly vio­lat­ing the terms of their pro­ba­tion in the community.

Have most of the youth in juve­nile deten­tion been charged with vio­lent crimes?

No, the major­i­ty of young peo­ple in deten­tion have been charged with non-vio­lent offens­es, includ­ing thou­sands charged with sta­tus offens­es , which are behav­iors such as tru­an­cy that are crim­i­nal­ized for youth, but not for adults. There are youth in deten­tion for break­ing pro­ba­tion rules, not break­ing the law.

Does juve­nile deten­tion make young peo­ple worse?

Peer-reviewed research spon­sored by the Foun­da­tion con­cludes that a stay in pre­tri­al juve­nile deten­tion increas­es a young per­son­’s like­li­hood of felony recidi­vism by 33 % and mis­de­meanor recidi­vism by 11 %. In addi­tion to a tick­et to deep­er jus­tice sys­tem involve­ment, deten­tion often leads to oth­er pro­found and poten­tial­ly neg­a­tive con­se­quences such as exac­er­bat­ed health issues and sep­a­ra­tion from fam­i­ly, school, job and community.

These are just some of the ways that deten­tion can have an adverse effect on youth, as well as their communities:

• Into deten­tion, out of the class­room. Remov­ing a child from their com­mu­ni­ty means remov­ing them from their school­ing sched­ule. And while deten­tion cen­ters that house school-aged chil­dren offer edu­ca­tion, it’s often inad­e­quate and incon­gru­ous with the track that they were on pri­or to con­fine­ment. Con­se­quent­ly, chil­dren who are detained are less like­ly to com­plete high school or find employment.
• Wors­ened health out­comes. When chil­dren are pulled from their com­mu­ni­ties and thrust into the insta­bil­i­ty that comes with tem­po­rary deten­tion, their health often suf­fers as a con­se­quence — in ways that are both imme­di­ate­ly observ­able and long lasting.
• Dis­pro­por­tion­ate pun­ish­ment. For young peo­ple who are African Amer­i­can, Lati­no and Amer­i­can Indi­an, the like­li­hood of deten­tion is greater than their white coun­ter­parts, even when con­trol­ling for the seri­ous­ness of offense and pri­or his­to­ry of the indi­vid­ual. Although African Amer­i­cans only make up 16 % of the youth pop­u­la­tion in the Unit­ed States, they rep­re­sent 44 % of the con­fined youth pop­u­la­tion — and are five times more like­ly to be held than their white peers. These dis­par­i­ties have pro­longed, sig­nif­i­cant consequences.
• Life­time con­se­quences. Young peo­ple who are con­fined in deten­tion cen­ters while deci­sions on their cas­es are pend­ing expe­ri­ence more neg­a­tive out­comes, accord­ing to research, than their coun­ter­parts who are able to remain at home dur­ing this time. Youth who are detained are also more like­ly to see fur­ther involve­ment — for instance, future arrests — in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem than those who are not.
• A price paid by the whole com­mu­ni­ty. Detain­ing chil­dren not only impacts their lives, it comes at a high cost to their entire com­mu­ni­ty. Tem­porar­i­ly con­fin­ing youth costs approx­i­mate­ly $ 1 bil­lion every year. With bet­ter alter­na­tives, this is an enor­mous and avoid­able price to taxpayers.

Are there racial and eth­nic dis­par­i­ties in juve­nile detention?

Yes. Young peo­ple of col­or are con­sis­tent­ly over­rep­re­sent­ed in the nation’s court­rooms and deten­tion cen­ters, youth pris­ons and oth­er res­i­den­tial insti­tu­tions. Racial and eth­nic dis­par­i­ties begin at arrest and per­sist through­out the sys­tem, inten­si­fy­ing as respons­es become more restric­tive and punitive.

Are alter­na­tives to deten­tion effective?

Instead of lock­ing up young peo­ple for any kind of mis­be­hav­ior, more sys­tems are using alter­na­tives to deten­tion that sup­port youth safe­ly in the com­mu­ni­ty. Juris­dic­tions par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Foundation’s Juve­nile Deten­tion Alter­na­tives Ini­tia­tive® ( JDAI ® ) have reduced admis­sions to secure deten­tion by 57 % and aver­age dai­ly pop­u­la­tion by 50 % from their pre-JDAI base­lines, while pro­tect­ing pub­lic safe­ty, accord­ing to 2018 data , the lat­est available.

Addi­tion­al resources on juve­nile detention

Time­ly Jus­tice: Improv­ing JDAI Results Through Case Pro­cess­ing Reforms . This JDAI prac­tice guide offers prac­ti­cal steps that juve­nile jus­tice sys­tems can take to safe­ly and equi­tably reduce the use of juve­nile detention.

Les­bian, Gay, Bisex­u­al and Trans­gen­der Youth in the Juve­nile Jus­tice Sys­tem . Rel­a­tive to their peers, LGBT youth are more like­ly to expe­ri­ence phys­i­cal, sex­u­al and emo­tion­al abuse — par­tic­u­lar­ly in secure set­tings such as deten­tion. Under­stand­ing these risks and the signs of anti-LGBT bias are crit­i­cal to ensur­ing that juve­nile jus­tice sys­tems are set up to advance the safe­ty and well-being of all youth.

JDAI at 25 . This results report, which draws on eight years of JDAI data, tells how par­tic­i­pat­ing sites have achieved sig­nif­i­cant and — in many cas­es — long-last­ing reduc­tions in rates of juve­nile deten­tion and juve­nile crime.

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Touting ‘zero youth detention’ goal, King County offers tour of new juvenile jail

The public areas of the new $242 million Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) offer soaring ceilings, light and open spaces, compelling artwork and an inviting, modern facility where King County’s juvenile-justice system can strive toward its stated goal of “zero youth detention.” The fact that the county isn’t there yet is demonstrated behind a series of steel doors and whitewashed cinder block: a new 156-bed juvenile jail.

For a jail, it’s a nice one. Murals decorate the hallways and every small single-occupancy cell has a floor-to-ceiling painted blackboard with chalk. Common areas include tables and chairs, couches and big-screen TVs mounted high on the walls. Each block — housing a maximum of 16 residents each — has a modern classroom. There’s a medical clinic, a gymnasium, a fully equipped library, a spiritual center and cafeteria. The new facility has 100 fewer beds than the dingy and oppressive Youth Services Center (YSC) building next door, and is designed so its secure wings can be taken over and repurposed as the size of the detention facility continues to shrink.

“We needed this space,” said Chief King County Juvenile Court Judge Judith Ramseyer, who hosted a tour of the not-yet-occupied CFJC for media and officials on Wednesday. “This is the first time the space reflects the care and dedication of the workers it contains.”

Ramseyer introduced the new facility acknowledging that there has “been a lot of controversy about building this space,” including passionate opposition and protests.  A group of activists, the No New Youth Jail Coalition, demonstrated and petitioned for several years against the new facility and incarcerating youth in any capacity.

However, Ramseyer said that regardless of opinions over the need or efficacy of youth incarceration, the old YSC was inadequate for the county’s needs.

Families visiting the old Youth Services Center were confronted with cramped courtrooms, scattered resources, and almost no privacy. It was not rare for the families of a victim to be shoulder-to-shoulder with the family of an accused offender, Ramseyer said. Attorney and client conversations took place in hallways or even closets. Juvenile Court Judge Mike Diaz said his courtroom in the old building would reach temperatures in the 80s during the summer, and in the 60s in the winter.

The new building, Ramseyer said, has achieved the county’s goal of creating an “open, bright and inviting space” for families and children in crisis while making government and community resources more accessible. Inside the CFJC is the Justice Bobbe Bridge Resource Center, where community-run organizations will be available on a rotating basis, to put families in touch with help. Among its offerings: A clothing shop stocked through donations so young people can dress up for job interviews or court.

The new four-story facility, which totals 137,000 square feet, contains 10 modern, wood-trimmed courtrooms, including a large room on the first floor for high-profile cases that might attract media or public attention. That courtroom can hold upward of 100 people; the largest courtroom at YSC barely holds 40. All of the courtrooms are designed with the clients in mind — children and families. The judges’ benches are raised, but not so high as to be imposing or “ominous,” said King County Juvenile Court Manager Paul Daniels. Similarly, all of the attorneys and defendants will sit at a single curved table in front of the judge. “It’s just a softer environment,” he said. “It’s not as adversarial.”

Each of the new courtrooms is wired for video and audio and the hearing-impaired and there will be, for the first time, free child care available on-site.

The lobby and public areas are framed in glass, steel and brick, and look more like an airport concourse or waiting area. The structure contains 91 pieces of original art by 40 artists, spread over its four floors and funded through the county’s 1% For Art program. They include striking murals, glass sculpture, photography and paintings. Several of the murals and photographs are located in the detention center itself. The pieces were chosen by a panel that included court-involved and formerly court-involved youth, according to a center fact sheet.

The goal of all of this is to continue to move King County toward its goal of doing away with juvenile detention altogether. Daniels notes that there were about 40 juveniles in detention on Tuesday, and just four of those were crimes serious enough send them to adult court for prosecution. The average daily population last year was 38, he said.

That’s a vast improvement over the years, said Derrick Wheeler-Smith, the director of Zero Youth Detention at the King County Department of Public Health, who noted that in 1999 the average daily juvenile jail population in King County was around 200 — most of them children of color.

“But we can’t rest on our laurels,” Wheeler-Smith said. “You can’t invest in the future without divesting ourselves of the past.”

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Visitors Get Behind-The-Scenes Look at Juvenile Hall

The annual open house event is designed for local teens, parents and mentors, by monica garske • published may 18, 2013 • updated on may 18, 2013 at 3:04 pm.

More than 3,000 people, namely parents, mentors and teens, made their way into the Kearny Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility on Saturday to get an inside look at what it’s really like to live in custody.

Juvenile Hall officials held their annual open house event for the public from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the facility located on Meadow Lark Drive.

Organizers say the behind-the-scenes tour is designed to be an eye-opening experience of what life is like for youth in custody. With probation officers serving as tour guides for the day, teen visitors come to understand the serious consequences of poor decisions and illegal behavior.

The open house includes a look into the juvenile courtroom process, as well as living conditions at Juvenile Hall, including simple uniforms, showers and locked rooms that become a part of daily live in custody.

At times throughout the tour, probation officers tell young visitors to walk single file with their arms crossed, in the controlled style of real-life detainees.

Organizers say the main goal is to prevent more local youths from winding up in Juvenile Hall.

During Saturday’s event, that message was loud and clear.

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One local 14-year-old boy, who’s currently living in a group home, toured the premises with chaperones and told NBC 7 that the visit made him want to behave well and not get into illegal activity.

Another visitor, Kathleen Donnelly – who was once in custody at the Kearny Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility – attended the event as a reminder of how far she’s come. She told NBC 7 she’s turned her life around since her days in custody.

“I was an inmate here when I was 17. It was a big part of what changed my life. I experienced a lot here; a lot of discipline and a lot of change,” Donnelly told NBC 7.

According to the County of San Diego website, the Kearny Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility opened in 1954 and has a maximum capacity of 359 detainees.

The facility currently houses pre-teens, teenagers and young adults with an average age of 15. The teens who live there have committed a range of offenses, from property and drug-related offenses to acts of violence.

The facility provides structured educational and social programming to youth in custody that’s designed to address the root of their delinquent behaviors and reform the way they choose to live.  

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New academy aims to reach students in Florida juvenile detention system

Florida Virtual School will hire 190 teachers, paraprofessionals and school counselors to staff a new academy for at-risk youth in Florida’s juvenile detention system.

The new hires will staff the Florida Scholars Academy, a program for at-risk youth served by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.

The in-person academy will be available to kids at all 42 DJJ residential commitment programs in the state. Classes will start July 10.

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Teachers interested in applying for the open positions must have a highly qualified teacher status, and be available to provide in-person instruction at DJJ facilities Monday through Friday.

Florida Virtual School said the goal of the program is to empower the more than 1,200 students in juvenile detention and to reduce recidivism rates.

“No matter the circumstances that led these students to be assigned to Department of Juvenile Justice residential commitment programs, they deserve a high-quality education,” said the Superintendent of Florida Scholars Academy, Julian Cazañas Jr.

“Our educators will meet every student where they are, providing them with the tools and skills needed to change the trajectory of their lives.”

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan found education programs like this one in prisons can reduce recidivism by 14.8%.

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Shelby Co. Juvenile Court judge blasts sheriff on care of kids in custody

M EMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - No more excuses. The head of Shelby County Juvenile Court said Sheriff Floyd Bonner and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office must provide better care for the children and teenagers who are behind bars at the Shelby County Youth Justice and Education Center at 3420 Old Getwell Road.   

Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon joined 10 non-profit agencies accusing Sheriff Bonner and SCSO of denying young offenders parental visits, quality educational opportunities, and activities outside in the sun.

Sugarmon said SCSO hasn’t allowed in-person visitation at the county’s youth corrections facility in four years, not since before the COVID-19 pandemic.  

The judge called it “harmful to children and the community at large” in a letter sent Thursday, April 4, to the Black Clergy Collaborative of Memphis, just days after the BCCM and nine other non-profits sent a letter to Sheriff Bonner listing four concerns about the newly-opened $28 million juvenile jail:  

• No in-person parental visits
• No access to quality education
• No time spent outside
• No advocacy groups allowed to meet with the kids

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office wrote back , denying the need for collaboration on a plan to improve the detention center and instead offering information “about the many programs in place to help our youth heal, be inspired, to learn, and to find new paths that we hope will keep them out of the criminal justice system.”

Brandy J. Flynn, a mental health specialist who started her career working in a residential facility for children, told Action News 5 that kids in custody need human contact with loved ones, daily schooling and fresh air, sunshine, and exercise to succeed.

“Are you rehabilitating them?” she asked, “or are you just keeping them stuck? From the parents to the doctors, the therapists to the educators to the recreational therapists, it takes everybody to really be involved in implementing ways for the child to become better.”

During an exclusive tour before the jail opened last year, Asst. Chief Takeitha Tuggle told Action News 5 that she looked forward to more classrooms and more outdoor activities since the new facility was much larger and more modern than the old juvenile jail inside Shelby County Juvenile Court on Adams Avenue.

“We don’t want them to feel like they’re in a dungeon,” she said.

But those services are on hold Thursday because SCSO said it doesn’t have enough staff to care for the 110 kids currently held there.

”Right now, the population at juvenile court is a challenge for us,” said Chief Deputy Anthony Buckner, “I think our actual numbers were projected to be around 60 or so... so to have 100 or more in custody presents a different challenge for us.”

Judge Sugarmon doesn’t buy it.  

“Population size is not an excuse,” he wrote in his letter, “The center is below maximum capacity, which is 144. Only 50-60% of students have been allowed to attend school. We desire 90-95%.”

He went on to say that SCSO needs 18 dedicated staff members to make daily school attendance a reality. That works out to an 8:1 staffing ratio in each of the jail’s nine classrooms.  

Unless SCSO makes changes quickly, Brandy Flynn said hope dims for the children the center is supposed to help.

“So, if they’re just stuck, then that’s what they’re going to continue to be: stuck,” she said, “And once they’re released, best believe nine times out of 10, they’re going to come back and may come back worse than they did the first time they were there.” 

Judge Sugarmon said Juvenile Court ordered SCSO to resume in-person visits in February. Two months later, SCSO said it’s waiting on information about who should be allowed to visit.

“I think the hangup right now,” said Chief Deputy Buckner, “is making sure that we understand from the court who they let visit these youth that are in custody. We’re not privy to that information. Certainly, we don’t want to have a kid in custody on some type of welfare case and we allow an abuser to visit with that child.”

Virtual visitation isn’t available yet because the SCSO staff hasn’t been trained on how to use the technology.

Buckner also said he believes a “fence issue” and cold weather are the reasons why the kids aren’t allowed outside.

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