Bryan Stevenson: Defeating Mass Incarceration Starts with Keeping Kids Out of Adult Facilities [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Alicia Doktor 1/25/184:00 AM

Making sure that children don’t enter the adult jails and prisons should be a critical part of how the country thinks about ending mass incarceration, according to leading criminal-defense lawyer Bryan Stevenson.

“We’ve allowed our most vulnerable children to be thrown away, to be traumatized and to be locked up in these jails and prisons, and we’ve got to change this narrative that some children aren’t children,” Stevenson said.

Stevenson, the founder and CEO of the Equal Justice Initiative, joined singer John Legend for a conversation in Los Angeles last week at Into Action, a festival aimed at bringing together artists, policymakers and community leaders.

[For more on this story by Jeremy Loudenback, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...ult-facilities/29549]

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