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Report Finds Racial Disparities in the Severity of Punishment of Youth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report Finds Racial Disparities in the Severity of Punishment By Robert E. Pierre Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 13, 2008; B02 The nation's juvenile justice system metes out harsher punishment to black and Latino youths, locks up thousands of children for relatively minor offenses and ultimately makes them more dangerous, according to a national study released yesterday. "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 conducted the study, during a news conference yesterday. "We routinely fail to recognize that children are different than adults. We need to alter the context in which we serve kids." Nelson's remarks came with the release of the foundation's annual Kids Count report, which measures the well-being of America's children in 10 categories...continue to full post

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