Advocates Pass Along Lessons Learned at Conference on Closing Youth Prisons [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 5/2/1712:00 PM

They arrived sharing the same goal of closing youth prisons, the same desire to address the racial and social disparities they see daily and the same belief that rehabilitating youth is always smarter and more moral than locking them away.

Today’s Youth First conference could have been preaching to the choir of like-minded activists. Instead, speakers and organizers hoped to send attendees out with something they didn’t have: a blueprint to follow as they returned home to work with lawmakers, law enforcement and families of youth charged with crimes.

[For more of this story, written by John Holland, go to http://jjie.org/2017/04/28/adv...osing-youth-prisons/]

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