Graphic: Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration

Helen W Mallon
Collective Power
Published in
Jan 28, 2021

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Stories like Sousan Robinson’s bear witness to the personal, human cost of racial disparity in youth incarceration. Statistics reveal the nationwide sweep of the problem as well as a steady increase over time. The personal stories need to shake us to the core. The statistics must be faced and deeply absorbed. Heart and head together: Only by engaging both will we create systems that truly reflect healing, equity, and justice.

The Sentencing Project. Used by Permission

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