New report finds that LGBTQ youth are disproportionately likely to face arrest, prosecution, and mistreatment in court and detention.
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2016. A comprehensive new report explores how the U.S. juvenile and criminal justice systems endanger the lives and life chances of young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer, or LGBTQ. Among the report’s most alarming findings is that the percentage of LGBT youth in juvenile detention is double that…
