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On any given night in America, nearly 50,000  youth under the age of 18 are confined in   facilities away from home, two thirds of  which are in correctional-style facilities. ing to the non-profit Prison Policy  Initiative, this number has decreased over   the last 20 years, but the United States still  incarcerates the most children in the world. Sarah Hinger is a senior staff attorney  with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program: “The United States far outpaces other countries  in detaining and otherwise criminalizing   young people, and that is again similar to the  adult system, a disparate impact on youth of color   who are disproportionately represented in contact  with the criminal justice system. Likewise, young   people with disabilities are disproportionately  represented in the juvenile system” But why is that? And why are so many  youths arrested in the first place? Michael Corriero is a former New  York State Supreme Court Justice. “At the turn of