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Section 2. Recommendations for Care of Children in Special Circumstances

Hepatitis and Youth in Correctional Settings 77

Pediatricians should work with state and local public health agencies and administrators of correctional facilities to address the health needs of youth in detention and to protect the community. The number of arrests of juveniles (younger than 18 years of age) in the United States was 2.1 million in 2005, fewer than the number of arrests in 1996 but still a rate of 6350 per 100 000 youths 10 through 17 years of age in the United States. On any given day, approximately 120 000 adolescents are held in juvenile correctional facilities or adult prisons or jails. Incarceration periods of at least 90 days await 60% of juvenile inmates, and 15% can expect to be confined . . . [Go to Full Text]


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