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Underreported: Incarcerated Teens
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that declared that children in the juvenile justice system have the right to an attorney. Yet many children do not receive adequate legal aid. On today’s second Underreported, we ask why some American teenagers have been sent to jail without ever having consulted a lawyer. Grace Bauer tells us about her son, who went to a maximum security facility at the age of 13 for shoplifting. She is now a community organizer and Director of the Lake Charles Chapter of Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children. Robert Listenbee, Chief Juvenile Defender in Philadelphia, and Mary Ann Scali from the National Juvenile Defender Center, join her.
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