"Jackson, Mississippi, Wants Curfew Centers to Cut Crime. Here’s What Other Cities Learned."

From The Marshall Project, via NACDL's news update:

Curfews have been imposed and abandoned numerous times in Jackson over the decades. Lumumba invoked the last temporary curfew in 2021, following a surge in violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. The planned youth centers, he said, will get “to the root cause of why that young person may be on the street,” instead of “detaining them and becoming part of the problem.”

 

Other U.S. cities have enacted curfews and set up youth centers, with mixed results. National studies have shown that curfews usually don’t stop violent crime. The Marshall Project - Jackson examined the practices of youth centers in Baltimore and Philadelphia. A summary of the findings is below.