1. America’s
urban youth

2. Two types
At-Risk: Endangered, due to exposure
High-Risk: Particularly subject to potential dang
or hazard

3. afro-american community
Many of those in their 20s are in
prison. Drug abuse and AIDS are
rampant, and murder is the major
cause of death for
15- to 34-year olds.

4. least-reached
The U.S. prison population is very
large with 1.8 million in jail. No other
democratic nation has such a high
incarceration rate. Nearly half the
prison population is
Afro-American.

5. LA County Juvenile Detention Facilitie
• 3 Juvenile Halls (LA, Downey, Sylmar)
• 19 Probation Camps
• 53,830 juvenile arrests (2003)
* 30,697 Hispanic (57%)
• * 12,207 Black (23%)
• * 8,005 White (15%)
• * Male 75%
• * 5% <12 years
• * 50% ages 16-17

6. Justice Dept. findings, April 2003
LA County Juvenile Halls
• We conclude that failure to provide
proper rehabilitation, education,
opportunities to use the telephone
and participate in religious
programming, insufficient provision
of translation services for Limited
English Proficient (LEP) youth, and
an ineffective grievance system also
violated residents’ rights under the
14th Amendment and other

7. LA County Juvenile Hall Orientation
Saturday, April 19, 10am-noon
rican American Center for World Miss
1605 E. Elizabeth St., Pasadena
resenter: Protestant Chaplain Carradin
RSVP: missions@aacwm.com

8. I WAS IN PRISON AND YOU
CAME TO ME.” MATT. 25:36