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From Jena to Chicago: The Movement to End Child Incarceration (offline)

By: 
Toussaint Losier
Date Published: 
January 01, 2008
    For many activists, the mass protests in Jena, Louisiana on September 20 were the spark for a mass movement. This issues raised by Jena were nothing new -- unequal justice and the criminalization of youth, especially Black youth, is as old as the US -- but the powerful response felt like a rebirth.

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