Ex-offender finds key to stem youth crime: Give kids hope
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Tommie Mabry was 12 when a bullet grazed him while he was burglarizing a home he thought was empty. It could have been fatal for the rebellious preteen hell-bent...
Youth Caught in Crosshairs of Cycles of Gun Violence. Is Anybody Listening?
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Cassio Batteast, a community advocate in Jackson, recently sat down with 20 of the students in the local school district who were causing the most trouble.
Over weekly meetings, they gradually opened up to him. “I learned that 10 of the 20 had fathers who had been murdered or fathers who had murdered someone. Half,” he said.
Jackson, Mississippi, Native Working to Change Culture of Suspension in Its Public Schools
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Juan Cloy remembers being suspended when he was at Provine High School in the 1980s. He and several friends got in a fight with some kids from the neighborhood at school. Everyone involved got suspended.