Christopher Zoukis, incarcerated writer, interviewed me on Huffington Post about why we should not sentence kids to adult prisons, and here’s a piece of his intro:
“In recent years a question has presented itself amongst criminal justice circles: Should juvenile offenders be treated as kids or adults? This question seems to be increasingly important as instances of serious crime committed by juveniles has become more prevalent, or at least more visible, in the United States. The fact that “as many as 250,000 juveniles are tried, sentenced or incarcerated each year as adults”, according to Aljazeera America is enough to give anyone pause due to the breadth of the issue.” More