Locking Up Our Children: The Secure Detention of Massachusetts Youth After Arraignment and Before Adjudication
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 13, 2008
ANNOTATION: The role pre-adjudication detention practices plays in the overrepresentation of minority youth in Massachusetts' secure detention facilities is examined. This report is comprised of these sections: introduction executive summary; background -- the disproportionate confinement of youth of color in juvenile detention and correctional (treatment) facilities; the ACLU's 2006-2007 study -- an attempt to identify the reasons for disproportionate minority confinement; conclusions and recommendations. While detention practices are responsible for some of the disparity in youth of color being detained, these practices may not be the primary cause.