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*Did You Know? The JJDPA Ensures Youth Are Kept Out of Adult Jails and Are Separated From Incarcerated Adults *

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The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act [ [link removed] ](JJDPA) recognizes that youth are fundamentally different from adults and must be treated as such. Prior to the passage of the JJDPA, data was not officially tracked, but a 1976 Children’s Defense Fund report [ [link removed] ] estimates that _up to half a million_ children were held in adult jails each year.

The JJDPA’s core requirements prohibit youth from being placed in adult jails and lockups and provide guidance to ensure sight and sound separation between youth and incarcerated adults. The recent reauthorization of the JJDPA reinforced and strengthened the core requirements to keep youth charged as adults out of adult jails and lockups.

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