Youth Promise Act

While the average incarceration rate in the United States is 7 times the international average, for blacks the average rate is over 22 times the international average. The Youth PROMISE Act aims to address that.

It's time to see White House leadership for these at risk youth who are failing to receive the help they need and unnecessarily putting our communities at risk from both a public safety and a fiscal perspective.

We cannot accept the fact that for the first time in the history of the United States more than one in every 100 adults is locked up in jail or prison.

This bill continues to promote and devote the vast majority of its resources to expensive failed policies that may exacerbate the gang problem and crime while disproportionately affecting youth of color.

Young people represent 62.5 percent of all murder victims. And for young people of color, the statistics tell an even grimmer story.