Author Nell Bernstein Talks About ‘Burning Down the House’ and Abolishing Juvenile Prisons
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Author Nell Bernstein on the horrors of juvenile prison documented in her new book.
OP-ED: Nell Bernstein and the Abolition of Juvenile Prisons
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“The statistic is horrific. One in three children will be arrested by the time they are 23 and many of them will spend time in detention centers, actually prisons, who do little to rehabilitate. In fact, each year some two million children are arrested in this country.”