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The Keeper and the Kept

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a new report from the W. Haywood Burns Institute that will be issued Tuesday.  Shadi Rahimi writes, "National Leader in Juvenile Justice Poised to Release New Report." For the families of the more than 90,000 youth in custody of the juvenile justice system any given day, Thanksgiving delivers heartbreak. A majority of incarcerated children in the U.S. are youth of color held for mostly nonviolent offenses. For this, our society pays a high moral and financial price, says James Bell, Executive Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) and lead author of its new report on juvenile justice, The Keeper and the Kept. ?As a society we do not demand nor expect excellence, fairness, rationality or accountability from our child-serving justice systems...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 24, 2009 (boomark / email).