When we look at the entire social justice issue of mass incarceration, the criminal justice system in the United States also assumes responsibility for contributing to this unjustice. Access the resources below to learn more about the criminal justice system.
Podcasts
- Serial Podcast – Season 3 focuses on Ohio, specifically Cleveland
- The Appeal podcast ft. Angela T. Davis
- Campaign for Youth Justice Podcast: Voices of Youth Justice
- Code Switch: A Decade Of Watching Black People Die
Documentaries/Movies
- Prison Kids: Juvenile Justice In America
- The 13th by Ava Duvernay
- When They See Us (Central Park Five docu-drama)
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story
- College Behind Bars – PBS
- They Call Us Monsters
- Time
Websites/PDFs
- What Is Juvenile Justice?
- National Juvenile Justice Network: Supporting Immigrant Youth Caught In The Crosshairs of the Juvenile Justice System
- National Juvenile Justice Network: Snapshot of Racial Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System
- Bureau of Justice: Juveniles in Adult Prisons and Jails
- Juvenile Justice – The Sentencing Project
- Ohio Department of Youth Services – Facts
- Children in Prison – Equality Justice Institute
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention
- The Sentencing Project: Reducing the Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System
- Ohio’s juvenile prison system has nation’s highest rate of sexual victimization, survey
- Juvenile Justice Flow Chart
- Data Snapshot of Youth Incarceration in Ohio
Studies/Research
- The Sentencing Project: Racial Disparities In Youth Commitment and Arrests
- Prison Policy Initiative: Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2019
- UCLA Research Report: LGBTQ Youth of Color Impacted by the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems
- Yale Law Review: The New Jim Crow is the Old Jim Crow
- Anne E. Casey Foundation – Juvenile Justice
Short YouTube Videos
- Youth First Initiative: Jim Crow Juvenile Justice
- The Root: History of the Juvenile Justice System
- The Atlantic: Mass Incarceration Visualized
- Vox: The Racism of the Criminal Justice System in Four Charts
- Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan w/ Bryan Stevenson
Books
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (first chapter) By Michele Alexander
- Juvenile in Justice by Richard Ross
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum
Legal Information
- National Juvenile Justice Network: Ohio Family Guide to Juvenile Justice System
- Ohio Department of Youth Services: Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
- Juvenile Law Center: Know Your Rights full guide
COVID-19
- Prison Policy Initiative: Five Ways the Criminal Justice System Could Slow the Pandemic
- Ohio DYS: Youth Testing, Quarantine, and Isolation Reporting
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