Opinion: New, multimillion-dollar jail is no panacea for juvenile offenders
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How one prisoner, sentenced as a teen, sees spending millions on new juvenile jail:
For almost 25 years, I’ve been on North Carolina’s death row. The people on death row who have signed onto my letter protesting that new jail – and more than 40 other men on death row who wanted to sign but were physically unable to position themselves to do so – were confined as children to boot camps, reformatories, detention centers and youth prisons.