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Winner, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Domestic Photo, 2006 Juvenile crime rates have dropped dramatically since the early 1990s, yet more young people are in juvenile detention today than at any other time in America's history. Most are nonviolent offenders. Many have mental health or substance abuse problems. All have been failed by some combination of their families, schools, churches, and communities. But instead of addressing these young people's needs for treatment, rehabilitation, and basic nurturing, we lock them away in an overburdened juvenile justice system that can do little more than warehouse troubled children. This courageous work of photojournalism goes inside the system to offer an intimate, often disturbing view of children's experiences in juvenile detention. Steve Liss photographed and interviewed young detainees, their parents, and detention and probation officers in Laredo, Texas. His striking photographs reveal that these are vulnerable childrensometimes as young as tencoping with a detention environment that most adults would find harsh. In the accompanying text, he brings in the voices of the young people who describe their already fractured lives and

Author

Steve Liss; Marian Wright Edelman; Cecilia Ballì

Publisher

Austin: University of Texas Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292701960

Subjects

Social Science, Science, Sociology

Rating

4.42 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14