Sixteen- and 17-year-old first-time offenders with low-level offenses are heard by a court of their peers as part of a new pilot program called Project Reset taking flight in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
REFLECT: Convicts’ Letters to Their Younger Selves
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The plan? To photograph inmates at Maine State Prison and superimpose their portraits on letters they would write to their younger selves.
[Photos] The Courts at “Portland’s Projects”
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In one diverse community in Portland, Maine, the Kennedy Park basketball courts are a gathering space for folks of all ages, races and backgrounds in which to cooperate both in sport and community.
[Photos] Stories of LGBTQ Youth from the Big Easy
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Stunning portraits of young LGBTQ residents of New Orleans who tell stories about the darker side of the city that affects their lives.
[Photos] Execution of a 14-Year-Old
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In 1944 George Stinney Jr., age 14, was shocked to death in an electric chair that didn’t fit his small frame. He was the youngest person executed in 20th-century America.
[Photos] Battling Meth: A Mother’s Road to Recovery
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Now a mother, Lindsay Curio doesn’t use meth anymore, but the drug controlled her for 12 years, dictating her every move from the time she became addicted as a young girl.
[Photos] The Walls Come Crumbling Down
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At Trenton Central High School in New Jersey, where the ceilings are literally crumbling and the auditorium is condemned, I wonder how anything gets done at all. What is it like to attend high school in a campus that is falling apart? Photographer Andrew Wilkinson examines.
[Photos] The Anonymous People
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“The Anonymous People" is a film that looks at the history of the recovery movement and the anonymity that is central to 12-step programs. But it also looks at the growing movement of people in recovery who are coming out publicly to shed the stigma. Photographer Robert Stolarik documented a screening of the film in Connecticut.
[PHOTOS] Hurting in Harlem
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Photographs inside the Harlem housing projects where police arrested 100 people this morning in the largest gang raid in NYC history.
[Photos] Grown Men Weep
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A group of men calling themselves The White House Boys have banded together, unified by their time spent at a notorious Florida juvenile facility where they suffered beatings and other abuses.
[Photos] Young Incarcerated Photographers Make Magic in Photos
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How do you make magic in a place where there is none? In Rhode Island a photography program inside of a youth detention center is asking just that.