The Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC) released a new report on the disturbing state of Alabama's youth legal system, which for years has overly criminalized Black youth, pushing them out of school without due process and into abusive and costly youth detention facilities. States News Service, 13 Feb. 2024
Buried Alive: Stories From Inside Solitary ConfinementIt is brutal. It is torture by definition. It destroys the mind, body, and soul, making rehabilitation next to impossible. It is also outrageously expensive, and it doesn't work. Yet at the end of the Obama era, and the dawn of Trump's, isolation is as widely used as ever in the American penal system. And this is what it feels like. By Nathaniel Penn
Percent of U.S. Population Arrested at least once before age 26 (2/25/2019)
Rand Corporation News Release: Younger Americans Much More Likely to Have Been Arrested Than Previous Generations; Increase Is Largest Among Whites and Women