A More Perfect Justice System for Our Youth Is Coming — But Slowly [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 4/10/1712:00 PM

What is right will always overcome wrong, even when what is wrong is believed to be right.

It may take years or even centuries, but in time we eventually get it right.

And that has been our journey in juvenile justice, on a road still under construction, trying to get it right.

Consider the wrongness of slavery despite the many who believed it just and moral. It almost kept us from uniting 13 colonies to forge “a more perfect union.” We created a union, but only “more perfect” if you were not a slave.

Inherent in the belief that our nation was created in order to be “a more perfect union” is the idea that change will happen if perfection is to be achieved.

[For more of this story, written by Steven Teske, go to http://jjie.org/2017/04/10/a-m...s-coming-but-slowly/]

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