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Girls accounted for 31% of all arrested youth in 2019, an increase from 18% in 1990, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project also finding that, as with boys, fewer girls ultimately were incarcerated between 2000 and 2019.
The highest incarceration rates were among Black girls and Native American girls, according to that Sentencing Project analysis of the most recently available federal data on juvenile arrests and confinement.
Girls accounted for 6,598, or 15%, of the 36,479 youths confined to locked or other residential juvenile facilities on a typical day in 2019, the analysts concluded. That reflected what, between 2001 and 2019, was a roughly 75% drop in the number of girls who were incarcerated on a typical day. Continue reading >>
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