E.Y, age 11, Juvenile Detention Center Houston
I’ve been here for two weeks, and this is my third time in. I’m in the sixth grade. I was in placement but I ran away. They accused me of assault against my mom, but she scratched herself and said I did it. My dad lives in Atlanta and works in a barber shop.
-E.Y, age 11, Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas
Richard Ross
Richard Ross is the Executive Director of www.juvenile-in-justice.com and Juvenile-in-Justice. He is the principal photographer for the Juvenile-in-Justice project and travels frequently throughout the country to photograph and interview incarcerated children. Ross lectures frequently and has spoken at the Vera Institute of Justice, the 7th Annual Models for Change Conference, JDAI conferences, The Justice for Youth Summit, and many more. He is the author of Juvenile-in-Justice the book which received the American Library Association's 2013 Alex Award. He has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Fulbright, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. Ross has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1977.
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Antonia Tran
Antonia Tran says: The dark contrast between the dark juvenile and the stark white walls are glaring, if not ironic. In the Western world, where white is considered the color of good and dark is for evil, it seems to have overlooked this inverse of colours. In its stead is a great injustice against helpless youth that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; being committed for crimes that are harmless and arbitrary.
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