Divert Youth from Prosecution with Promising State and Local Efforts

Pro­tect and Redi­rect: America’s Grow­ing Move­ment to Divert Youth Out of the Jus­tice Sys­tem dis­cuss­es key pol­i­cy and prac­tice reforms relat­ed to address­ing ado­les­cent mis­be­hav­ior out­side of the jus­tice sys­tem. The new brief from the Sen­tenc­ing Project pro­vides exam­ples from 23 states and eight local­i­ties that are expand­ing and improv­ing the use of juve­nile diver­sion.