Youth in juvenile detention and correctional facilities in the Virgin Islands

Change Indicator

Youth in juvenile detention and correctional facilities

Data Provided By
Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definitions: Youth remanded to the Youth Rehabilitation Center.

The Youth Rehabilitation Center (on St. Croix) is the only secured detention facility in the territory providing incarceration for pre-trial and adjudicated delinquents as well as adolescents legally transferred to adult status for committing serious felonies. The facility provides intake, social services, education, recreation, nutrition, health and mental health services, as well as all court-related and mandated services.

Data Source: V.I. Department of Human Services. Division of Children, Youth and Families.

Footnotes: Data for St. Thomas also includes St. John youth.