R, Washoe County Detention, Reno, Nevada
I’m waiting for my mom to come get me. Is she in there? She’s at work today. I want to go home. I got in trouble at school today.
- R, age 10
R was brought in from school by a policeman, he stabbed a schoolmate– but it is unclear what the tool was, a pencil, knife, fork… He was waiting to be picked up by his mom who couldn’t come get him until she got off work, for fear of losing her job. He was checked on every five minutes. The director of the facility recalls an 8-year-old being brought in for taking a bagel and states, “this is not the place for these offenses.”
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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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