“Here in Mississippi we take care of our babies.”
Harrison County Youth Shelter, Gulfport, Mississippi
This Youth Shelter, attached to the family court, in Gulfport varies dramatically from the detention center in Biloxi. The administrative assistant to Youth Court Judge Michael H. Ward, says “Here in Mississippi we take care of our babies.”
Harrison County Youth Shelter, Gulfport, Mississippi
Seventeen miles east, at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi’s children are held in windowless, steel plated cells.
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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