PEDIATRICS Vol. 75 No. 3 March 1985, pp. 539-540
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Incarcerated Youths: Urgent Needs

JAMES W. M. OWENS MD1

1 AAP Representative, National Commission on Correctional Health Care, Division of Juvenile Rehabilitation, State of Washington, Seattle

Each year in the United States, approximately 1 million children are incarcerated. Fewer than half are held in juvenile facilities; the remainder are kept in adult jails. The conditions under which many of the children are confined and the results of their incarceration are often damaging to the child and to society.1,2

The American Academy of Pediatrics has had a long-standing concern with the special needs of youths incarcerated in detection and long-term residential facilities. The numbers of these children and the emotional, social, health, legal, and other problems that they and their families face are impressive.

In 1973, the Academy published its first statement on health standards for juvenile court residential facilities.3




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