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My name is Wilder Cosaboom-Son, and 'm an 8th grader at the LREI school. I am a member of the Juvenile Incarceration group, "How Young is too Young." I first became interested in the justice system last year when a group brought in a visitor who had been wrongfully incarcerated for 20 years. And I'm determined to make a change in the juvenile justice system.

Interview with Steve Liss, juvenile incarceration photographer

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On our latest fieldwork our group was able to meet the esteemed photographer, Steve Liss, an expert on juvenile justice. Steve Liss spent over 2 years in a juvenile detention center Texas, photographing and learning from the inmates. He was first inspired to take on this line of work after visiting a juvenile incarceration center while…

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Interview with Cheryl Roberts, Head of the Greenburger Center

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For our fourth fieldwork we had an interview with Cheryl Roberts, the head of the Greenburger center, a recently founded organization that is working on an alternative to prison for people with mental illnesses. The Greenburger center was founded last year by Francis Greenburger, but lead by Cheryl Roberts. As said before the Greenburger center’s…

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Speaker Event with Francis Greenburger

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On tuesday my group had the pleasure of attending a speaker event hosted by our school on mass incarceration. There was a rather distinguished panel at the event; Francis Greenburger, founder of the Greenburger Center and numerous other non-profit organizations. Ann Jacobs, director, Prison Reentry Institute at John Jay College, JoAnne Page, president and CEO, The…

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