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    Race, Youth and Criminal Justice System


    From Capital Punishment to Guns, Old Fears Weigh Like a Nightmare on Today's Debate
    Stephen John Hartnett (author of Executing Democracy): The roots of today's debate about capital punishment, prisons and guns goes back to pre-civil war religious ideas that slaves must be terrorized and God must be appeased

      May 15, 13

    Activists Occupy to Fight Racism and to Struggle for Racial Justice
    In New York, people of color play key role in shaping Occupy movement

      July 6, 2012

    Baltimore Hip Hop on School to Prison Pipeline
    Cultural event features Baltimore youth performing original work on the high incarceration rates of youth in the city

      June 29, 12

    What Would Make Baltimore Safer?
    Monique Dixon and Terry Hickey Part 2: There is no evidence supporting a new $100 million youth prison for youth charged as adults

      April 25, 2012

    Does Charging Youth as Adults Make Baltimore Safer?
    Monique Dixon and Terry Hickey: There is no evidence supporting a new $100 million youth prison for youth charged as adults

      April 23, 2012

    Treat Young Offenders Like Your Own Child
    Bart Lubow: There are many proven alternatives to incarceration

      October 23, 2011

    Baltimore Debates New Youth Jail
    State plans to spend 100 million on facility to hold juveniles charged as adults

      October 22, 2011

    Media Depicts U.S. Juvenile Detention Facilities as Rehabilitative
    Bart Lubow: Youth Prisons are places of violence, of arbitrary exercise of power, and are fundamentally dehumanizing

      October 19, 2011

    Race, Youth and Criminal Justice System in Baltimore
    Bart Lubow: Structural racism plays a major role in which youth are arrested and go to jail

      October 3, 2011

    Why are Kids in Jail?
    Bart Lubow: Zero tolerance policies and racial bias are pushing many kids out of school and into jail

      September 19, 2011

    Does Locking Young Offenders up Longer, Make us Safer?
    TRNN REPORT: In Baltimore and across the country more young people are being charged as adults and going to prison with longer sentences

      October 9, 2011

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