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Dec.22.2011 - 2:33 pm
If anyone doubts that the young people locked up in our jails are children they should spend some time in one of those prisons around holiday time.
I did just that for the...
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Nov.10.2011 - 12:07 pm
There’s been some good news in the media lately for anyone who cares about kids and justice. Federal statistics show that the number of juvenile offenders in jail has dropped by...
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Oct.06.2011 - 11:19 am
She was pretty upfront about it: she didn’t want me there.
“It’s not you personally,” Marge explained. “It’s the book.”
Marge was the moderator, researcher, engine, really, of a...
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Sep.20.2011 - 8:33 am
It was a busman’s holiday. 30 people in a room, all teachers in high school and GED programs in various prisons from across New York State, listening to me talk about teaching...
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Author of I Dont' Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lock-up (Beacon Press) http://www.beacon.org ), a narrative nonfiction collection of sketches of many of the locked up kids I worked with over a 10 year period while teaching...
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