The Sting of Juvenile Detention
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Records suggest that pepper spray—called “OC” (short for “Oleoresin Capsicum”)— is deployed daily, sometimes multiple times a day, in San Diego county's juvenile facilities.
[Photos] My Whole Family is Drug Abusers and Criminals
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Today on Bokeh: a photo and interview with N.C, age 17, at Johnson County Juvenile Detention Center in Olathe, Kan., who states, "It’s a criminal world and I am a danger to society. They expect me to change over night but they don’t realize progress takes time. I’ve changed in the last 4 months here by trying to control my anger … my mouth … my disrespect …"
[Photos] City Heights Youth Shed Light on San Diego’s Streetlight Problem
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When Rosario Iannacone steps outside her father’s home after dark, she shudders with the memory of her close call with a stranger. If Esperanza Gonzalez must go out at night, she leaves her purse at home and runs to her destination. Ana Lilia Gutierrez won’t let her kids roam the neighborhood at night after a car slow-rolled her near an inky neighborhood park.
Reporter’s Notebook: Girls in the System
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I knew I didn’t look good, but after a day of ice packs and Netflix, I was getting used to it. The curve of skin where my nose met my face had been cracked open. A bright purple crescent bloomed across my puffy cheek, swooping out from the inner corner of my right eye. “A girl did that to you?” my coworkers asked when I came back to the office, wincing at the sight. “Why?”
It was the same question I’d asked in the emergency room, waiting to find out if my nose was broken, and the same question I tried to answer a year later while reporting a story on girls in the juvenile justice system.
OP-ED: In Speaking as a Black American, President Obama Did Nation a Service
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On Friday, the nation’s first black president spoke candidly and productively about race. It was a good precedent for America.
Trayvon Martin’s Killing a Difficult Reminder for one New York Neighborhood
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Here in South Jamaica, Queens, people haven’t been raising their voices in response to the George Zimmerman verdict – they’ve been pulling out their guns.
Trayvon Martin, Unarmed and Innocent
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You would never think a walk to the store would get you killed, right? Well, that was what happened to 17-year-old Trayvon Martin...In my own personal experience as a young black male I sometimes get the sense that other people judge me on my appearance...At times I feel self-conscious, wondering if people on the subway or street automatically wonder “Is he a troublemaker? Should I hold onto my phone tighter?”
California’s Throwaway Kids
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On a blistering May day in California’s Central Valley, most other 13-year-olds were in classrooms down the road. But Erick Araujo was under strict orders from his mother to stay inside with a U.S. history textbook.
OP-ED: Too Many Are Touched by the System
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It’s tragic that so many people can say they have been touched by the U.S. prison system. A great uncle here, a brother there, a younger nephew or niece, and for far too many from our most vulnerable communities, they can point the finger at themselves.
Human Capital as Big Business, and One Woman’s Shot at ‘Stopping the Traffic’
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Across the United States, the business of human trafficking, especially in the sex trade, is booming with underground groups and gangs using children, women and men as commercial assets to trade across borders. But precise data to measure the scope of the issue is difficult to gather precisely because the trade is so covert. Often, the victims are invisible to society.