CANCELLED: Author Event: Nell Bernstein discusses and signs Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
Date and Time
Oct 2, 2014 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Oct 2, 2014 6:30 pm
14th & V
Busboys and Poets and Teaching for Change welcome Nell Bernstein for a discussion of Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month.
One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about how to rehabilitate young offenders. In a clear-eyed indictment of the juvenile justice system run amok, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein shows that there is no right way to lock up a child. The very act of isolation denies delinquent children the thing that is most essential to their growth and rehabilitation: positive relationships with caring adults.
Sponsors:
Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop
