David Chura's Blog – June 2010 Archive (2)

Juvenile Justice Reform: A Law Congress Must Pass





When you go to jail you feel like everybody’s in your business but nobody cares. You get cuffed, shoved into the back of a squad car.

The police blotter broadcasts to the world what you did. You get booked,

fingerprinted, photographed, everything about you fed into “The Man’s” hungry

computer. You’re watched—by correctional officers, wardens, nurses, other

inmates; even the kitchen workers warily scope you out. Bars instead of…

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Added by David Chura on June 28, 2010 at 9:38am — No Comments

Lessons from Solitary Confinement

I had just finished reading “Safety and Security,” a chapter from my book Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup, at a recent book event. It describes a morning I spent proctoring a state exam for a student who was locked up in solitary confinement at the county jail where I taught high school for ten years.





Each time I read that chapter the…

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Added by David Chura on June 9, 2010 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

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