“He wants to tell her that he is not hopeless, that he is not filled with hatred or violence, that he is not a number, a 300 or 600 or any hundred, but just a kid with no one and… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end… — Edward Humes Copy Share
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck it, cause… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“(By contrast, 15 percent of Pennsylvania is publicly owned lands, as is 44 percent of California, 68 percent of Idaho, and more than 90 percent of Alaska.) In” — Edward Humes Copy Share
“Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“He wants to tell her that he is not hopeless, that he is not filled with hatred or violence, that he is not a… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give.… — Edward Humes Copy Share
“Average household credit card debt topped the landmark of $10,000 in 2006, a hundredfold increase over the average consumer debt in the 1960s. One… — Edward Humes Copy Share
