Reducing Youth Incarceration: What works?

Over the past 15 months, The Sentencing Project has published a series of reports showing why it's important for America's youth justice systems to reduce incarceration and how to safely reduce the number of young people confined.

This webinar reviews our research and discusses alternatives-to-incarceration program models that work as well as systems reforms that can prevent the unnecessary incarceration of youth who pose minimal danger to public safety.

This presentation highlights a better way to protect the public and boost youth success by keeping kids out of institutions and working with them effectively in their homes and communities.

Speakers:

Ana Bermudez, former commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation

Jaclyn Cirinna

Clinton Lacey, President and CEO, Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement (CM3)

Richard Mendel, Senior Fellow, The Sentencing Project

Brett Peterson, Director of the Utah Division of Juvenile Justice Services

Moderator:

Josh Rovner, Director of Youth Justice at The Sentencing Project