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Your Own Health And Fitness:Girls at Risk |
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| Your Own Health And Fitness |
Girls at Risk |
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| Layna Berman |
Weekly Program |
For non-profit use only. |
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| Leslie Acoca, MA, MFT, director of In Our Daughters' Hands, discusses the health of incarcerated girls. |
Leslie Acoca, MA, MFT |
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| Why don't we hear about it? The proportion of girls caught up in the juvenile justice system is increasing at twice the rate of boys. In the population in general 18% of children are African-American but of girls incarcerated in New York's higher security juvenile prisons over the last three years, 54% are African-American. More than 96,000 juveniles are in the custody of juvenile justice agencies nationwide. Women with histories of childhood abuse or neglect are more at risk to be involved in property, alcohol, drug, and misdemeanor offenses. In 2004 there were 1,000 allegations of sexual violence in state-operated juvenile facilities. Staff-on-youth sexual violence accounted for 56% of reported incidents. Why don't we hear about it? The majority of girls entering the juvenile justice system suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, other mental health problems, substance abuse, and physical ailments. Again, why don't we hear about it? These statistics are taken from a fact sheet compiled by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch. Join us in this hour as we interview Leslie Acoca, a pioneer researcher and health advocate for encarcerated children and girls. Hear about it! |
Hosted by Layna Berman. Produced by Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD. Your Own Health And Fitness is a co-production of Your Own Health And Fitness and KPFA 94.1 FM |
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| Health | Politics and Activism | Children and Reproductive Health |
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2007-03-13 |
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