WASHINGTON — The toughest issue facing advocates working to abolish youth prisons may be what replaces them. It’s both an obstacle to change and a practical question that follows success.
“Pushing for the closure of youth prisons is often the radical idea,” said Hernán Carvente Martinez, national youth partnership strategist at Youth First Initiative. “The question you get is ‘You want to shut it down and replace it with what?’
“Do we build something smaller?” he asked. “That is the part most people feel uncomfortable with, not knowing what the next thing is.”
[For more on this story by Julie Miller, go to https://jjie.org/2018/08/07/fi...there-advocates-say/]
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