Addresses confinement in juvenile rehabilitation facilities.

Requires a child under the age of eighteen to be placed in a facility operated by the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families, as applicable, to determine the child's earned release date.

Authorizes a juvenile offender adjudicated of a serious violent offense to be committed by the juvenile court to the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families, as applicable, for placement in a correctional institution up to the time the juvenile offender is age twenty-five and one-half years old, but not beyond.

Allows a juvenile offender convicted of an A++ juvenile disposition category offense, or found to be armed with a firearm and sentenced to an additional twelve months, to be committed by the juvenile court to the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families, as applicable, for placement in a juvenile correctional institution up to his or her twenty-fifth birthday, but not beyond.

Requires the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families, as appropriate, to review the placement of an individual over age twenty-one who was placed in the custody of the department following an adult court felony conviction for an offense committed before age eighteen to determine whether the individual should be transferred to the custody of the department of corrections.

Requires the state institute for public policy to assess the impact of this act on community safety, racial disproportionality, and youth rehabilitation.