Unjust: How the Broken Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems Fail LGBTQ Youth

There are an estimated 57,000 youth in juvenile detention and correctional facilities on any given day, with hundreds of thousands more on probation. The Williams Institute estimates that half of LGBTQ youth in the United States are “at risk” of being arrested or entering juvenile and criminal justice systems. Emerging research shows that LGBTQ and gender nonconforming youth are more likely to be officially sanctioned; analysis of a national population-based survey found that LGBTQ youth were between 25% and 300% more likely than their non-LGBTQ peers to experience some sort of official sanction, ranging from being expelled from school, to being stopped by police, to being arrested or convicted as a juvenile or adult.

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Additional Annual Reports and Recommendations from the Commission on LGBTQ Youth can be found here.