Left to right: Lauren Fine and Joanna Visser Adjoian, co-founders and co-directors of the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project (YSRP).
In the course of more than four years of working directly with youth facing charges in the adult justice system, we have visited teenagers in Philadelphia’s adult jails dozens of times. No matter how many visits we make, the inhumanity of the practice of holding youth as adults is striking, and painful to experience. It is wrong, and it should end.
November 23, 2018 at 12:32 PM
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Children do not belong in adult jails. Period.
Through our work with youth facing charges in the adult justice system, we have visited teenagers in Philadelphia’s adult jails dozens of times. No matter how many visits we make, the inhumanity of the practice of holding youth as adults is striking, and painful to experience. It is wrong, and it should end.
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