SAN FRANCISCO – December 26, 2019 – A new research report from CJCJ Executive Director Daniel Macallair and Senior Research Fellow Mike Males provides a comprehensive review of San Francisco’s juvenile hall population. This report offers a deeper understanding of population trends within the city’s juvenile justice system amid planning for the closure of its juvenile hall.
San Francisco local youth detention and state confinement, 1990 – 2019
The research report finds:
- San Francisco holds an average of 37 youth (January-November 2019) in local detention, a decline of 81 percent from its peak in 1996.
- The annual cost of holding a youth in juvenile hall has risen by more than130 percent in the last decade, now costing $316,000 per youth in fiscal year 2018 – 19.
- Over one-fifth of youth released from San Francisco’s juvenile hall experience lengthier detention periods accounting for more than 75 percent of the hall’s total bed days.
For more information about this report or to schedule an interview with the author, please contact the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice at cjcjmedia@cjcj.org or (415) 621‑5661 x. 103.