Decrease in Youth Incarceration Across the Board
The decline in youth incarceration rates run across all 5 of the largest racial groups.
Although the United States still leads the industrialized world in its youth incarceration rates, the lock-up rate is rapidly declining. This two-page infographic presents a wealth of juvenile incarceration statistics underscoring the sea change in youth confinement that is underway.
Since 1995, the lock up rate for kids has dropped 41%. Black youth are nearly 5 times as likely to be incarcerated as their white peers.