Date: 05-14-2024
The report offers policymakers, funders, advocates, and communities the data and evidence they need to understand the scope of girls’ incarceration in California. |
from Vera Institute of Justice:
This report is the product of a two-year, multidisciplinary, mixed methods study by Young Women’s Freedom Center (YWFC) and the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera). The work leading to this report was a community-based research project that included outreach, quantitative data collection, collaborative analysis, and
original qualitative data collection in the form of interviews with 50 system-involved women, girls, and gender-expansive young people across the state.
The report offers policymakers, funders, advocates, and communities the data and evidence they need to understand the scope of girls’ incarceration in California.
The report
provides background on the history and context of girls’ incarceration,
lays out the key findings from quantitative and
qualitative analyses, and
provides a roadmap of how communities and state leaders
can work together to end the incarceration and criminalization of girls and gender-expansive youth.
This analysis shows that it is possible for every county in California
to end girls’ incarceration with bold and decisive action.
Read the full report here.
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