Mental Health Disorders Are Pervasive in the Juvenile Justice System. Here’s How One State Is Addressing It

Between 50 and 70 percent of the young prisoners in state juvenile justice systems have a mental disability, but an analysis of those systems found that only one state — Indiana — requires all teachers in such facilities to have special education certification.

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