“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
When someone is doing something we don’t like we often develop a view of them as an enemy, or at least someone...
“Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness. ...Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“The statistic is horrific. One in three children will be arrested by the time they are 23 and many of them will...
I thought about Billy the other day. Of all the horrible childhood stories I have heard his stands out the most in...
I have always taken reading and writing for granted. I never thought much about it until I got to prison.
I was a reasonably well behaved child. I got in a little trouble at school and home, but nothing unusual. I even...
The world’s eyes may be turned to Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby this weekend, but our real attention should be on...
From time to time I listen to talk radio. I’m not sure why really, except that I enjoy hearing viewpoints that differ...
She sits in solitary confinement 22 or 23 hours a day. She is 16, but has been involved with the system in...
Alex Hribal allegedly stabbed 22 people, including a security guard, at his high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. He used two large kitchen...
Seven years ago, when I was 15, I sat in my parents’ living room creating a Myspace page for my vice principal....
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth sent out an email this week lauding two recent decisions in the ongoing efforts to...
Last weekend I was conducting a workshop on restorative practices and many of the participants were educators, social workers and others who...
I learned to fear black men at a relatively late age. Although I was brought up in south Georgia in a time...
It is a fact that it is not easy being black or Latino in the United States. More specifically, it’s not safe,...
The hypocrisy of government efforts is a well known phenomena. Whatever scheme they embark on is wrapped in the stars and stripes,...
A friend of mine has been working for several years to implement restorative practices in his Midwestern community. He has worked with...
A new report estimates that more than 4 million young people enter formal mentoring programs at some point, double the rates a decade ago....
For James Burns solitary confinement began when he was six years old. As he writes in a recent ACLU article, “They restrained me,...