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Juvenile Justice: Care Over Punishment

Radical Imagination

English - August 25, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 174 ratings
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Last November Los Angeles County voted to dismantle the largest youth juvenile system in the country to create a new approach where care is prioritized over punishment. Radical Imagination host Angela Glover Blackwell speaks with youth grassroots organizer Kent Mendoza. He was incarcerated as a youth and was involved in the reimagining of a new system. We also hear from James Bell, the founding president of the Haywood Burns Institute and a consulting partner on LA County's Youth Justice Reimagined Planning Team.

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