[Highlights from the week's juvenile justice and justice related articles, reports, videos and more that are worth your time.]
 

new video from TakePart TV: ‘How Long is Forever: Fair Sentencing of Youth’

 
 
via Prison Policy Initative: ‘Return to Sender: Postcard-Only Mail Policies in Jails’
“Over the past five years, dozens of local jails across the country have followed a harmful new policy trend: mandating that all personal written correspondence to or from jail take place via postcard.” This new report from the Prison Policy Instititue, by Leah Sakala, explores why this is a major step backwards for the justice system.

 
via Campaign for Youth Justice: ‘Kids, Cops, and Confessions Explores Mysterious World of the Interrogation Room’
A good summary on the CFYJ blog on the new book Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room by University of Minnesota Professor Barry C.Feld. Leah Robertson states that the book is an “intriguing and incredibly useful body of research for anyone involved in the juvenile justice system.”

 
 
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[The Short List is published on Tuesday mornings and features highlights from the week's juvenile justice and justice related articles, reports, videos and more that are worth your time.]
 

Katy McCarthy

Katy McCarthy is the blog and media director at www.juvenile-in-justice.com, where she has learned and worked for four years. She has a Bachelors degree from University of California, Santa Barbara but exists in a state of perpetual re-education, devouring reports from the Justice Policy Institute, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Crime Report, the Campaign for Youth Justice and many others dedicated in the fight for system reform. On the weekends she is a sculptor and performance artist.

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