Over the past 15 years, the United States has seen drastic reductions in its world-leading rates of youth incarceration. Nowhere were these reductions more dramatic than in California, which once boasted the largest youth corrections system in the world.
To put this change in perspective, in 1996 California confined nearly 10,000 youths in 11 correctional facilities. Today, the state’s youth corrections system is comprised of three aging institutions with a combined population of about 700. By any measure, California’s unprecedented reduction in youth incarceration places the state at the forefront of 21st-century juvenile justice reform.
[For more of this story, written by Daniel Macallair, go to http://jjie.org/others-states-...n-california/185330/]
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