22 days ago
Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a security story. ProPublica is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 25 Sept 2026, 09:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Across the country, states have been shuttering their youth prisons as juvenile crime has plummeted and research shows the facilities are not effective at keeping youth out of trouble after release. From 2000 to 2022, the number of the highest-security facilities for kids has dropped by more than 40%, the…
Story timeline
Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.
- First reported by ProPublica
Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
Reported by 1 outlet
- ProPublica