Name: Milo O’Hagan

Social Justice Group: 2023-2024, Juvenile Prison System

Date of Fieldwork: January 25, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):The Sentencing Project, Jordyn Wilson

Type of Fieldwork: [69]

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?:

We met with Jordyn Wilson from the sentencing Project. The Sentencing Project tries to help kids that are getting tried as adults to be tried as juveniles. I learned that putting children in the adult system messes up their mental health . I also learned putting children in adult prisons doesn’t help at all. Race also goes into it as Black kids are 10 times more likely to be incarcerated than white kids. In Maryland juveniles can be charged for adult crimes in 30 plus ways.