Our group is composed of four dedicated 8th graders, determined to correct the juvenile justice system to focus more on rehabilitation than on punishment. And to end human rights violations, like solitary confinement, in juvenile detention centers for good.
Category Archives: Juvenile Incarceration: How Young is Too Young?
Interview with Steve Liss, juvenile incarceration photographer
On our latest fieldwork our group was able to meet the esteemed photographer, Steve Liss, an expert on juvenile justice. Steve Liss spent o [...]
Interview with Cheryl Roberts, Head of the Greenburger Center
For our fourth fieldwork we had an interview with Cheryl Roberts, the head of the Greenburger center, a recently founded organization that i [...]
Interview with Cheryl Roberts
Cheryl Roberts, who is the head of the of the Greenburger Foundation, told us about what the foundation is trying to stop. The Foundation ex [...]
Interview with Ismael Nazario, a firsthand witness of the prison system
For our third fieldwork we had an interview with Ishmael Nazarro of the Fortune Society, and a formerly incarcerated juvenile. When Ishmael [...]
Interview with Ismael Nazario
You’re 16. You’re alone. You’re afraid. You’re confined to a cold, wet six-by-eight cell with low lights. Thi [...]
Steve Liss
Steve Liss taught us that 200,000 youths are sentenced each year as adults in the United States. Those youths that are incarcerated cost the [...]
Ismael Nazario
Ismael was formerly incarcerated as a youth at Riker’s Island. He talked to us about what it was like to be in prison and why some p [...]
LREI Speaker Series
The speakers talked to us about the U.S. having only 5% of the world’s population, yet we have 25% of the worlds incarcerated. The spe [...]
Presentation at the PAC
This is our second field work. Last Tuesday was spent in the LREI High School PAC, listening to a panel of incarceration experts discuss inc [...]
Speaker Event with Francis Greenburger
On tuesday my group had the pleasure of attending a speaker event hosted by our school on mass incarceration. There was a rather distinguish [...]
Interview with Saadiq Bey, Project Evaluator for the Fortune Society
Today we got to meet with Saadiq Bey, a member of the Fortune Society, and an LREI parent. Before our interview we had watched a video he li [...]
Interview With Saadiq Bey, 11/17/14
My group and I interviewed Saadiq Bey. Mr. Bey works for the Fortune Society. He is a really nice guy, and he helped our group a lot. Saadiq [...]
Meeting with Saadiq Bey
On Wednesday our group met with an activist and LREI parent Saadiq Bey. After exchanging a few emails, our group, met with him in the Learni [...]
Juvenile Incarceration: How Young is Too Young?
We are a group of three passionate eighth graders devoted to ending wrongful stop and frisk as well as racial profiling. To read our group&# [...]
