Good Sentences: Juvenile Justice Clinic

By Deborah Thompson (Kenyon Review, Winter 2016).

By Reginald Dwayne Betts (Poetry, April 2016).

By Shoshauna Shy, Poetry Northwest (Spring 2001), available from the Library of Congress: Poetry 180.

By Gwendolyn Brooks. Excerpted from The Bean Eaters, 1960.

By Reginald Dwayne Betts. Excerpted from Bastards of the Reagan Era, 2015.

More than 250,000 girls were arrested in the United States in 2013, according to FBI records. How do girls end up in the juvenile justice system? What happens after they are arrested? And what is being done to help them?

These are a few of the questions Web content editor Eileen Rivers is exploring in a three-part audio series on the juvenile justice system and how it's failing girls.

Click "More" for parts 2 and 3, or visit the site yourself to explore.

By Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker (October 6, 2014)

By Jessica Lahey, The Atlantic (January 8, 2016)

Joining a gang seemed like the best way to evade violence for women in El Salvador, but in many cases it only put them more squarely in danger.
By Lauren Markham, Pacific Standard (September 12, 2017)

by Sarah Kasbeer, Guernica (October 19, 2018)