In Our Future We Are Free: The Dismantling of the Youth Prison
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A master class in social change—how a coalition of parents, activists, and prison officials brought a racist and destructive institution to its knees
“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC News, about Bernstein’s Burning Down the House
Over the past twenty years, one state after another has shuttered its youth prisons and stopped prosecuting kids as adults, slashing the number of c...






















