Incarcerated Teens

Changing Our Prison Systems Will Take a Little Bit of Intelligence

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

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Michealene Cristini Risley

Think about it, for each person per year that we incarcerate, we are spending almost as much to house them as it would cost per person to pay off the national debt. Does this make sense?

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Young, Black and Locked Up

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

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Marian Wright Edelman

Our ranking as the world's number one jailer represents a monumental national failure. We need to refocus what we do with the children we detain.

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From Hug-Drug to Thug-Drug: Street Ecstasy and Violent Crime

Sheerly Avni | Posted 09.28.2007 | Living

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Sheerly Avni

Here in Oakland, the X factor for many incarcerated teens has been a literal X factor -- the popular club drug, Ecstasy.

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