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This 5 page paper examines the increase of
juvenile offenders in the corrections system, and
asks how their educational needs are being met.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBjjail.doc
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read?" That evolved to, "Why cant Johnny read?" What seems to be happening now, is that we continue to ask the same questions of ourselves and Johnny, but now
Johnny has not only changed his name to Juan, but he has moved to a new neighborhood. Federal law requires states to identify and improve disproportionate incarceration of members of
minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992 and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minority involvement in the juvenile justice system. Is
it appropriate to close our eyes to minority youth that are incarcerated? Check the data: Minority youth are 33 percent of all youth aged 10 to
17, but 66 percent of those incarcerated. Between 1982 and 1991, the height of the war on drugs, arrests of minority juveniles for drug offenses increased by 78 percent,
while arrests of white juveniles decreased by 34 percent. According to the Republicans, response to these figures is simple: Blacks and some other
minorities commit more crime, and therefore they should be incarcerated more often. But that doesnt explain the disparities. If that were all that were going on, one would
expect to see relatively consistent figures at each successive stage of the juvenile justice system. In fact, the disparities get progressively worse. African American youth, for example, are
26 percent of arrests but 32 percent of those referred to juvenile court, 41 percent of those detained as delinquents and 52 percent of those tried as adults. In
fact, racial disparities in criminal justice generally are worse today than they were in 1950, when segregation was legal. Then, African Americans were 30 percent of the incarcerated population;
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