Voices From Juvenile Detention: Kids Behind Bars

Steve Liss

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Their pants are too big. Nothing about the juvenile detention center--not the cinder-block cells, not the orange jumpsuits or the brown plastic slippers--seems made for children. And yet, every day the guests get smaller, and more confused about what brought them here. 10-year-old Cristian sits in his cell, charged with family violence.

Steve Liss, " Voices From Juvenile Detention: Kids Behind Bars," in POYi Archive, Item #41683, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/41683 (accessed November 23, 2024).