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Let's figure out ways of keeping our children out of the juvenile justice system and in the classroom so that they'll thrive. Because if…

— Valerie Jarrett

Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting…

— Robert Sapolsky

“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

I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

“After all, there is in more stable, developed countries like the United States and Britain a quantifiably more vicious culture of child abuse. A…

— John R. Bradley

We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that if a…

— Greg Boyle

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

— Thomas A. Edison

One of the things that concerns me is the lack of adult supervision, and more specifically, caring adult supervision, at various reform schools and…

— Adam Rapp

I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me…

— Eartha Kitt

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is…

— Ayelet Waldman

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner…

— Michelle Alexander

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now.…

— Walter Dean Myers