Study Shows Black Youth are More than 4X as Likely to be Detained as White Youth. 41% of All Youths Locked Up are Black [a major goal of racism white supremacy is to put blacks in greater confinement]
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From [HERE] Black youth are more than four times as likely to be detained or committed in juvenile facilities as their white peers, according to nationwide data collected in October 2019 and recently released. In 2015, Black youth’s incarceration rate was 5.0 times as high as their white peers, an all-time peak. That ratio fell to 4.4, a 13% decline.1)
Juvenile facilities, including 1,510 detention centers, residential treatment centers, group homes, and youth prisons2) held 36,479 youths as of October 2019. (These data do not include the 653 people under 18 in prisons at year-end 20193) or the estimated 2,900 people under 18 in jails at midyear 2019.4))
Forty-one percent of youths in placement are Black, even though Black Americans comprise only 15% of all youth across the United States.5) Black youth are more likely to be in custody than white youth in every state but one: Hawaii. Between 2015 and 2019, juvenile placements fell by 24%. During these years, Black youth placements declined faster than white youth placements (54% vs. 36%), resulting in a smaller but still considerable disparity.
Nationally, the youth placement rate was 114 per 100,000. The Black youth placement rate was 315 per 100,000, compared to the white youth placement rate of 72 per 100,000.
Racial disparities grew by more than 10% in 11 states and decreased by at least 10% in 23 states and the District of Columbia.
In New Jersey, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, and Connecticut, African American youth are at least 10 times more likely to be held in placement as are white youth.
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Nebraska have seen their racial disparity grow by at least one-third.
Indiana, New Jersey, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Nevada decreased their racial disparity by at least one-third.
