{"id":99,"date":"2011-10-12T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=99"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:22:46","slug":"incarcerating-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2011\/10\/12\/incarcerating-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Study demonstrates the counterproductive effects of incarcerating youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aecf.org\/OurWork\/JuvenileJustice\/JuvenileJusticeReport.aspx\">This study<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0confirms that incarcerating youth is toxic for both those youth and for society, by demonstrating that youth prisons do not reduce future offenses, waste taxpayer dollars, and expose youth to dangerous and abusive conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/study_locking_juvenile_offenders_behind_bars_is_costly_and_ineffective.html\">This commentary<\/a>\u00a0includes more useful observations for those who need convincing, like the fact that\u00a0336 of every 100,000 of the world\u2019s incarcerated youth is locked away in a U.S. prison facility&#8211; nearly five times the rate of South Africa, the next country on list&#8211; and that juvenile crime fell when Texas authorities began to decrease the jailed youth population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study\u00a0\u00a0confirms that incarcerating youth is toxic for both those youth and for society, by demonstrating that youth prisons do not reduce future offenses, waste taxpayer dollars, and expose youth to dangerous and abusive conditions. This commentary\u00a0includes more useful observations for those who need convincing, like the fact that\u00a0336 of every 100,000 of the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prison-conditions","category-publications-and-advocacy","category-youth","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}