Youth Incarcerated

Youth Incarcerated

Hardly a week goes by that there isn’t something shocking in the news. This week the startling announcement included the terrible employment figures as well as Harry Reid’s slip of the tongue. Another shocker was the widely reported study released this week on sexual abuse in juvenile facilities. The Justice Department’s statistical bureau issued the report. The findings looked at 26,550 adjudicated youth in confined facilities. Approximately 91 percent of the youth were male, and nine percent were female. It is really alarming that 12 percent of all youths reported sexual abuse while in the facilities.