by Dara Lind ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January 2019. And she didn’t know why she was being questioned by an agent who’d.
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Nearly 2000 children are arrested each day in the United States. That s according to the Children s Defense Fund.
This hour, we check in with the Connecticut Justice Alliance which works to keep children and youth out of the justice system.
Although Connecticut is seeing an overall decline in its prison population, the vast majority of incarcerated youth are children of color.
How might our state change the way youth offenders are punished, and rehabilitated? Advocates say it’s about working with the whole family, not just the offender.
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Fernecia Smith - Justice Advisor with the Connecticut Justice Alliance
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