Less Crime for Less Money Solutions for Working With Juvenile Offenders

August 22, 2005 Less Crime for Less Money Solutions for Working With Juvenile OffendersDepending on their crimes, teenage offenders typically spend from nine to 17 months in one of Indiana's 10 juvenile facilities2. The average age of these offenders is 173. Meanwhile, state and county governments spend more than $63,000 per year, per offender, or nearly $175 per day to keep juvenile offenders in detention facilities4. That adds up to an annual cost of nearly $80 million- a jump of 13.5 percent over the previous 5 years. (Excerpted from report). The goal of this study was to . . .