Kids jailed for Cash on 20/20
20/20 aired a special on Friday night about the Judges who jailed young people in exchange for money from a private detention facility. The show can be viewed here. This show, and an article that appeared in the New York Times this week, highlight young people’s voices and experiences about this controversy. They offer a starkly different perspective than we are used to in the public forum about young people charged with crimes, one which suggests that there should limits set on the way that we punish young people who violate norms.
May 4, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Children, being sold for cash?? What is this world coming to? Who are the children supposed to trust if they cannot trust us (the community???) If your going to sell someone sell the prostitutes, the pimps, the drug dealer’s but not the children. If they can’t turn to us for help with their problem’s, if we can’t save at least one child then something is very wrong!!! We ought to be ashamed!!