In April of 2007, I was sentenced to a youth forestry facility for mocking my vice principal online.
I was sentenced by the now infamous former judge Mark Ciavarella, who is now serving a lengthy prison sentence for his role in the construction of a for-profit juvenile detention center.
As a teen, Delvin Reddick faced a choice between pursuing a degree in social work or hitting pause on his education to pay off court debt stemming from a theft charge.
The ski mask “is a fashion statement. This item is a lot of things to a culture,” 19-year old youth advocate, Saud Salahuddin, testified at a Philadelphia City Council Meeting arguing against the passage of an ordinance banning ski masks on public transit and in other public spaces.
Three years after a bipartisan multi-stakeholder Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Task Force issued pressing recommendations to reform the juvenile justice system, youth in Pennsylvania still desperately need protection.
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