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Library Services to Young People and Children in Correctional Facilities

persons under 17 years of age in about 800 correctional facilities for juveniles. These young people may be under six years, although most will be between ten and fifteen; a relatively small number of residents will be between seventeen and twenty-one. Less than 25 percent of the residents will be female. They will stay in the institution an average of nine months.' Not included in the above figures are youth who are court-committed to privately operated institutions, nonjuvenile institutions (such as local jails for lack of proper facilities), and special care units for addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, etc. For purposes of this paper, the term youth will be used regardless of age. Comments will concern chiefly those facilities planned exclusively for the housing of persons under twenty-one years of age who are under court jurisdiction or have been committed by court action. The number of such facilities rose from 722 in 1971 to 794 in 1973.2 Of the 794 facilities in 1973, 367 were operated by state governments and 427 by local governments. Of the 45,694 youth in the 794 facilities on June 30, 1973, 33,385 had been adjudicated delinquent; 4,551 had been declared in need of supervision; 6,397 were being held for court action. The remaining 1,361 youth were in categories such as neglected and dependent youth.3 Librarians planning services for youth in correctional facilities and/or planning to be librarians in such institutions face a variety of factors which are not usually considered in library school classes. This paper will attempt to identify some of those factors and their relevance to library services, as well as to provide a limited description of what is happening in this area of librarianship. It is to be hoped that