juvenile incarceration Archive

Although juvenile arrests in the US have decreased the past few decades, arrests for girls younger than 18 are up — yet there is little focus on the context behind this trend.

Before he arrived at Camp Smith, a Los Angeles County juvenile detention camp in Lancaster, Taylor Faatai couldn’t see a future for himself. “The person I was before … didn’t have a destination, and I didn’t want a destination,” Faatai …