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Before Michael ever saw the inside of juvenile lockup, caseworkers recommended he be sent home. The 13-year-old came from a stable, two-parent home in Columbia. He watched over his three younger siblings, did chores around the house, and enjoyed playing in his youth football league.
Two state agencies have placed a moratorium on sending youth in their custody to Good Shepherd Services, a Baltimore County residential treatment center cited
Many Juvenile Jails Are Now Almost Entirely Filled with Young People of Color Eli Hager, Marshall Project, March 8, 2021 White youths were being released from juvenile detention centers at a far higher rate than their Black peers during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, and young people of color have since been detained for longer than they were before the crisis, according to data gathered by a leading children’s philanthropy. So many kids were freed from jail last year that by late summer, fewer children were incarcerated than at any point since at least the 1980s. But many yo...