King County lays out $4 million plan to keep young people out of jail After a year and a half of research, King County has released what it’s calling a “roadmap” to help keep more young people out of jail. Patricia Murphy
Nikkita Oliver refuses to debate youth jail without live audience This week Dow Constantine, the King County executive, agreed to a debate on the Seattle Channel about the new youth jail. On Friday, activist and... Patricia Murphy
My uncle killed four cops. But I’ve lived with death all my life. Every person was born in this world with a certain purpose. Some people say you don't know your purpose until it's too late. I believe that because a... Shamar Slaughter
Read these lyrics about regret from incarcerated youth Two young men created this song at the Echo Glen Children's Center, a maximum security facility in Snoqualmie, in a series of workshops with RadioActive... TWO YOUNG MEN IN JUVENILE JAIL
Public health to oversee King County youth detention King County Executive Dow Constantine is making a change he says will help the county with its effort to dramatically reduce the practice of detaining... Patricia Murphy
Why King County no longer prosecutes kids who beat their parents Vicky used to hide the knives in her home, but not because of the ex-husband who she says was abusive. She was being beaten by her 13-year-old son. Patricia Murphy
When people in charge are mostly white, what’s a black kid in jail to think? When black youth enter the criminal justice system, most of the people in authority they come into contact with — social workers, lawyers, the jury —... Patricia Murphy
Needed: Black mentors to keep kids out of jail. Comeback stories a plus Alternative sentencing programs have reduced the number of kids in King County’s juvenile jail, but they’re still disproportionately black. The county... Patricia Murphy
Two short poems from Seattle's juvenile jail CHICAGO ON THE SOUTH SIDE By a young man in juvenile detention, age 15 Everybody should know that when I was younger I was at school one day, I went... a young man and a young woman in juvenile jail
Dark, sad poetry by kids in Seattle's juvenile jail The girl had been raped as a child. Years later, she was in juvenile detention in Seattle, telling her story to Richard Gold, who was helping her write... Isolde Raftery
