An inmate at the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Fusion has produced the documentary"Prison Kids: A crime against America's children," which you can view
here.
This particular subject has a special resonance for me because I spent 23 months in "reform school," aged 10-12. That sentence began almost 60 years ago in 1957 and I'd like to be able to say that those days were the bygone dark age of juvenile justice in America and that we've learned to do better. But as the documentary shows, it's not bygone and we haven't learned enough.
The Fusion site
notes:
We incarcerate children at a higher rate than any other developed country. Kids make mistakes—sometimes large, sometimes small. And every day in America, they can be locked up in stark, mismanaged jails and marked for life.
Fusion traveled across the country, gathering the stories of kids who grew up behind bars. We found children subjected to solitary confinement; mental health problems; physical and mental abuse; racial inequities; lives ruined forever at an early age.
We found a system that’s supposed to help kids, but often sets them adrift.
Presented by entrepreneur, music mogul and activist Russell Simmons and narrated by “Empire” actress Gabourey Sidibe, this hourlong documentary investigation [...] is a story about how to take children and ostracize them, derange them, outlaw them. It is the story of America’s crimes against children.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2011—Bus drivers forced to transport arrested Wall Street protesters; union going to court to stop it:
The Transport Workers Union, among the first unions to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters, is going to court to prevent the city from forcing its members to drive buses carrying arrested protesters. Several empty buses were commandeered Saturday during the mass arrests at the Brooklyn Bridge and MTA supervisors ordered drivers to drive them:
But that violates the contract between Local 100 and the MTA, Samuelsen said.
"Our mission is to provide transit service to the riding public, not transport people who were arrested," he said.
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