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Bar chart showing confinement rates of youth ages 17 and younger for technical or status violations, by race and ethnicity

Data Source: Sources: National Center for Juvenile Justice, Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement and Easy Access to Juvenile Populations (2019 data). (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2021)

This graph originally appeared in The U.S. criminal justice system disproportionately hurts Native people: the data, visualized.

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