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| Juvenile lockup rates drop significantly |
| By inforum.com - Helmut Schmidt |
| Published: 02/28/2013 |
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FARGO – Incarceration rates for juveniles dropped significantly in North Dakota between 1997 and 2010, and even more drastically in Minnesota, a Kids Count report released Wednesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows. North Dakota’s juvenile incarceration rate dropped 23 percent per 100,000 population between 1997 and 2010. Minnesota’s rate dropped 39 percent. Nationally, the incarceration rate dropped 37 percent, according the report, which uses Census Bureau one-day “snapshot” data. In 1997, North Dakota had 273 juveniles in lockup on the survey day. That dropped to 168 in 2010. In Minnesota, 1,521 were in lockup in 1997, but that dipped to 912 in 2010, the report stated. Read More. |
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