Public Service Announcement Sources

Statistic: By offering community and support, one mentoring program kept 85% of youth from reoffending.
Source: "Mentor Gives Teens a Chance to Start Over," by Neely Tucker. Washington Post. 5/31/01, page DZ10
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A97552-2001May30

Statistic: In one study, only 2% of news stories addressed any relationship between crime and poverty.
Source: Soundbites and Cellblocks: An Analysis of the Juvenile Justice Media Debate and a Case Studey of California's Proposition 21, We Interrupt this Message, 2001, page 5.

Statistic: When youth are incarcerated with adults, they are:
8 times more likely to commit suicide
50 times more likely to be attacked with a weapon
Source: "Impact of Proposition 21," Juvenile Justice Information Center, quoting U.S. Department of Justice statistics.
http://www.jjic.org/impact.html

Statistic: California ranks 43rd in the nation in public education spending and 1st in prison spending.
Source: Books not Bars
http://www.booksnotbars.org/bnb1/archive.html

Statistic: We can save $2 million for each child that is prevented from starting a life of crime.
Source: "Building Safe Communities One Child At a Time." Coalition for Juvenile Justice. www.juvjustice.org/about/index.html