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Alternatives to Adult Incarceration for Youth Charged as Adults 1 Acknowledgements The Campaign for Youth Justice would like to thank the Justice Policy Institute and the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth and its Incarcerated Children’s Advocacy Network for their partnership in developing this resource and for their contributions to several forthcoming pieces on current practices for child. [...] The number of youth in adult jails has dropped by close to half in the past five years, and those in prison have dropped even more dramatically by 75 percent.8 Some of this decrease is the result of falling crime rates and reforms that raise the age of criminal responsibility to age 18, at least for youth with low-level offenses and misdemeanors. [...] Youth who are committed to the adult system are 34% more likely to recidivate, and with more serious behavior, than youth who are in the juvenile justice system.21 Youth transfer and sentencing as adults falls heavily on youth of color25 n Black youth were 53.1% of youth transferred to adult systems for person offenses in 2015, despite the fact that black and white youth each made up approximately. [...] They are raising the lower age for four states that set the age of criminal responsibility at age 17 children eligible to be transferred to adult court, rolling back and have not passed legislation to raise the age in the near the type of charges eligible for transfer to adult court, and future. [...] In 2019, the Connecticut Office of the Child the floodgates to welcoming other, younger youth because of Advocate published a report on conditions of confinement for “successful programming.” youth in the state, including use of restraint and isolation, as well as health and educational offerings.