via the Beyond Bars campaign: a new video from the Safekeepers video series

From the video description: “Meet Matthew Fogg, a former U.S. Marshal whose exploits led him to be nicknamed “Batman.” When he noticed that all of his team’s drug raids were in black areas, he suggested doing the same in the suburbs. His boss didn’t take kindly to the idea.”

via the Chicago Reporter: “Striking a Major Chord: a music teacher reaches out to this students through his art”

How Dyryl Burnett is sharing his passion for music with his students– most of whom are from poor and disadvantaged neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. Burnett, who grew up on the West Side, teaches music making to his class– last year they made a full length mix tape together. Burnett says, “Music allows me to teach life to them. That’s what I am attempting to do.”

via the Philadelphia Enquirer: “N.J’s alternatives to juvenile incarceration are dropping rates”

Good news: A recent Kids Count Special Report has revealed that the number of youth jailed in New Jersey in 2011 was 60% lower than 2004. Employing alternative forms of supervision, such as in-home monitoring and mandatory attendance at day center, is saving money and lives from being wasted in an ineffective system. Cecila Zalkind, executive director of the Advocates for Children of New Jersey, stated, “For years, New Jersey locked up thousands of juveniles, often for minor, nonviolent crimes, warehousing them in overcrowded, unsafe detention centers…Today, we have a completely different system that safely keeps most youth out of lockup and works to put these children on a path to productive adulthood.”

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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