NCJ Number
142142
Date Published
1992
Length
49 pages
Annotation
This report on California's juvenile hall population presents the average number of youths in the State's county juvenile halls during calendar year 1991, the number of admissions to halls, a profile of reasons for confinement, and information on status offender detentions.
Abstract
During the reporting period, there were 130,186 youths admitted to California's 47 county juvenile halls. The halls provided an average of 5,643 beds, an increase of 116 from the previous year. The statewide daily average juvenile hall population decreased by 4.6 percent since 1991, the first decline in a decade. The bed occupancy rate averaged 97.4 percent, which represented a decrease of nearly 7 percent. However, 30 of the halls experienced one or more days of overcrowding; there were 4,004 incidents of overcrowding during 1991. The overall rate of overcrowding derived from these figures was 23.3 percent. On average, over 55 percent of the youths were in a predisposition status. The remaining youths were commitments by the courts, waiting for private placement or placement in a probation camp, waiting for delivery to the Youth Authority, holds for other agencies, or remands to adult court. 12 tables and 7 appendixes