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\nKentucky’s youth incarceration rate has dropped slightly statewide, including in Jefferson County.<\/p>\n
\nKentucky’s youth incarceration rate has dropped slightly statewide, including in Jefferson County.<\/p>\n
The new data was released by Kentucky Youth Advocates. The rate is measured per 1,000 kids.<\/p>\n
Between 2021 and 2023, 17 out of every 1,000 Kentucky kids were behind bars. That is an improvement from 21 out of every 1,000 in 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n
Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates, said these young people are a danger to themselves and others but he hopes the Juvenile Detention Centers will rehabilitate them instead of just locking them up.<\/p>\n
Youth incarceration has been a topic of conversation as Louisville prepares to reopen its Juvenile Detention Center. It also comes as the state’s juvenile jails deal with a staffing “crisis” over not having access to regular therapists, which social workers said is the key to keeping kids out of jail.<\/p>\n
Jefferson County’s youth incarceration rate stands at 30 per 1,000 kids.<\/p>\n
The state’s juvenile justice system is at the center of a statewide civil investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the conditions at eight youth detention centers and a youth development center in Kentucky in mid-May, in response to allegations of institutional abuse and mistreatment of children.
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