Louisiana Arrest Rates and Minority Populations

Abstract: In recent years, Louisiana has made substantial headway in fine-tuning its Criminal Justice system to reflect a substantial decrease in the number of arrests and detention of its citizens. The changes in arrest data since 1998 and 1999 are substantial when you consider that in 1999, Tim Roche, the Deputy Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice to the Louisiana State Senate reported that Louisiana had the highest juvenile residential custody rate of any state in the nation for a total of over 56 percent of its youth being detained. By 1999, this statistic had dropped to 51 percent, according to Roche, however, Louisiana retained the number one spot because its arrest and detention rate is double that of any surrounding state. This changed with the inception of Louisiana

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Subcatagory: Black Social Issues, Politics & Philosophy

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