In what the San Francisco Chronicle called an epic work of investigative journalism that lays bare our nation s brutal and counterproductive juvenile prisons and is a clarion call to bring our children home, Nell Bernstein eloquently argues that there is no good way to lock up a child. Making the radical argument that state-run detention centers should be abolished completely, her passionate and convincing (Kirkus) book points out that our system of juvenile justice flies in the face of everything we know about what motivates young people to change.
Called a devastating read...