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Minors in the Big House

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Minors in the Big House Te-Ping Chen The Nation January 28, 2008 First, she felt shock. When Oluwaseun Animashaun, of Providence, Rhode Island, learned that her state was planning to try 17-year-olds as adults, she couldn't believe it. She thought of her younger brother, struggling to get an education in a city where, according to The Washington Post, less than half of students ever graduate high school. She thought of people she knew at school, people growing up in neighborhoods where over a third of families live below the poverty line. She felt incredulity--and then anger. And now they want to throw us in jail? Though geographically, Rhode Island is a tiny fragment of a state tucked just under Massachusetts' sleeve, the state--and particularly its capital, Providence--is a microcosm for many of the issues facing the rest of the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 23, 2008 (boomark / email).