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Read News: Report Finds Racial Disparities in the Severity of Punishment

By The Sentencing Project

"We are generating more violence and criminality in our effort to interrupt it," said Douglas W. Nelson, president and chief executive of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which just released its annual “Kids Count” study. The study found the nation's juvenile justice system doles out harsher punishment to black and Latino youths, locks up thousands of children for relatively minor offenses and ultimately makes them more dangerous. "We routinely fail to recognize that children are different than adults. We need to alter the context in which we serve kids." The report measures the well-being of America's children in 10 categories including reductions in the rates of child deaths, high school dropouts and teens who are not in school or working...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on June 15, 2008 (boomark / email).