Criminal
Jul. 7, 2016
Time to transform juvenile justice
The juvenile justice system is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Youth who enter it, particularly youth of color, become trapped in a series of escalating sanctions that outweigh the original offense. By Meredith Desautels and Ji Seon Song
The term "juvenile hall" is fairly benign, evoking a school hallway or even a college residential hall. But this term obscures the reality - that juvenile halls are the youth analogue to adult jails. Teenagers sleep in cells with little time outdoors, limited in how much they can chat at meals or how many books they can keep.
With juvenile crime and arrests down, and the number of youth incarcerated a...
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