Circling Disaster: Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GAHEXCS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praise for Dwayne Betts “A searing and ultimately uplifting story.” —Hill Harper, bestselling author of Letters to a Young Brother “Betts is a major new voice d I look forward to being inspired by him for years to come.” —Russell Simmons “Required reading for all those young sons and grandsons and brothers and nephews and uncles who believe this can’t happen to them.” —The Baltimore Sun
Today, Betts is free and a nationally known advocate for juvenile justice and prison reform. In The Circumference of a Prison, Betts shapes his narrative around individuals and families whose lives were profoundly impacted by juvenile incarceration, and in this way reveals the many disastrous effects of these failed policies. Over the past four decades, the prison population in America has increased by more than 500 percent, leaving more than three million people confined or under state or federal supervision. But the message in The Circumference of a Prison is also one of hope, as Betts tells stories of the people and programs that are helping to change perceptions. By setting these stories against a context of shortsighted legislation and sensationalized media reports, Betts powerfully underscores the high societal cost of our nation’s practice of incarcerating juveniles with adults. Each year, nearly 200,000 juveniles ar