Minnesota Social Justice

The MYC Juvenile Justice Subcommittee seeks to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and advocates for young people involved in Minnesota’s carceral system. MYC Values Statement: “We believe in holistically addressing the school-to-prison pipeline, police free schools, solutions not suspensions, students informed on rights, human dignity, no one is beyond redemption, and solutions beyond the criminal justice system.”

Minnesota has an incarceration rate of 342 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than almost any democracy on earth. Read on to learn more about who is incarcerated in Minnesota and why

Leadership Conference Education Fund study findings.

Since 1970, the rate of incarceration in America has expanded more than fourfold, and the United States leads the world in locking people up. Many places in America have begun to reduce their use of prisons and jails, but progress has been uneven. Although the number of people sent to state prisons and county jails from urban areas has decreased, that number has continued to rise in many rural places. Racial disparities in incarceration remain strikingly
wide. Women constitute a rising number of those behind bars. This fact sheet provides at-a-glance information about how many people are locked up in both state prisons and county jails and shows where the state stands on a variety of metrics, so that
policymakers and the public can better determine where to target reforms.