The Fallout of the Zimmerman Verdict Still Reverberates in Chicago, Nation
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Following mass demonstrations in cities nationwide, thousands took to the streets of Chicago over the weekend to protest.
Vera Institute of Justice: Community Corrections Can Answer Mass Incarceration Problems
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Community supervision aimed at high-risk offenders, as well as mandatory evidence-based programs, have the potential to curtail the U.S. correctional system.
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.
The Potential Perils of the Youth PROMISE Act
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Could the Youth PROMISE Act result in the over-policing of black and Latino communities?
Illinois’ Youth Well-Being Ranks Near Middle in New National Report
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Illinois is ranked 23rd overall for child well-being in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book.
Audio: Griselda’s Story
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Griselda, 17, was arrested when she was 14. In this audio piece she talks about bad influences in her neighborhood, and how exalt helped her get her life back on track.
Aiming to Change Attitudes on a Tight Budget
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In order for 18-year-old Ashley Carroll to turn her prison cell resolution into a reality she had the help of a transition program that helps children in the city’s juvenile system.
VIDEO: Life After Foster Care
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Aging Out: Life After Foster Care from Lindsay Armstrong on Vimeo. NEW YORK -- When Cordale Manning came to live with Elaine and Lee Fair at age 17, he was on his fourth foster home in as many years. The Fairs had a simple philosophy: as soon as a child entered their home, he or she became family. After countless family dinners, long conversations and moments of shared laughter, Manning started to believe them. However, a small voice still nagged in his mind. He worried that at 21, the age of independence, the Fairs would let him go and he would be alone.
Struggles and Successes, Voices From the Foster Care System
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NEW YORK -- Every time he combs his hair, Tomas Rios sees the scar. It happened when he was 12 years old, his seventh year in the New York City foster care system. By then, he’d already shuffled through a few different neglectful and violent families. By then, it all felt like routine. “I was living in one of the more abusive homes I’d ever been in,” Rios said.