Kids in custody, and in crisis: Detention in New York

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Hundreds upon hundreds of New York’s poorest Black and Latino youth have had to live in a place where they face violence and abuse at every turn, where kids wrestle with addiction and mental trauma, with their parents nowhere to be found. They haven’t been abandoned in neighborhood slums, they’ve been placed in “secure detention.”

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