Somewhat overlooked in the Life Without Parole (LWOP) debate has been the impact of LWOP on youth of color – and all-too-often tendency of our systems to take a “well, that’s just the way it is” approach to this and other DMC-related efforts. A good article by James Bell, of the Haywood Burns Institute, perhaps the leading organization working on DMC issues, has written a thought-provoking piece in the Huffington Post titled Juvenile Justice and Race: An Uphill Climb to the Bottom, spurred on by the recent Supreme Court arguments about LWOP. A simple question to ask ourselves is whether we can continue to accept that a substantial portion of our youth end up in the juvenile justice and adult criminal justice systems. The answer has to be no. As we talk more and more about things like LWOP and evidence-based practices, let’s not forget DMC.
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