young prisoners

First, they stare. They are sitting, face-to-face, in a cinder block box of a room designed for attorney visits. It stinks of sweat and fear. The prisoner — a young man who as a teen took part in a Salinas robbery that ended with rape and murder — waits nervously. ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A pesar de décadas de reformas de justicia juvenil, California sigue encarcelando a muchos más jóvenes de color que a sus homólogos blancos, según un nuevo análisis. Una investigación recopilada por The Sentencing Project demuestra que los adolescentes negros tienen nueve veces más probabilidades de estar...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite decades of juvenile justice reforms, California is still incarcerating kids of color much more often than their white peers, according to a new analysis. Research collected by The Sentencing Project shows Black teens are nine times more likely to be locked up than white teens, and that’s...