20170123-153136-42
Session Description: Even with the decline of juvenile crime and incarceration over the past ten years, youth with disabilities, including intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), are being incarcerated at higher rates. One study reports that 65-70 percent of justice-involved youth have a disability—that is three times higher the rate compared to youth without disabilities. Rules and laws that work for the majority of the population often blatantly fail people with I/DD, which can lead to injury, trauma and other harmful consequences.