Due Process - Juvenile Justice (Aired 3/10/2018) 

Do we really want to throw away our children - or only someone else's kids?
If our system of juvenile justice was designed to rehabilitate and reintegrate, why does it actually deliver something sadly different?
And what role do race and class play in determining which kids the system embraces, and which it sees as threatening - and expendable?
On our next, new edition of Due Process, we take an unflinching look at those discomforting questions and the growing movement to transform the way we treat young offenders.
My opening mini-doc features expert analysis from Professor Laura Cohen, director of the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic at Rutgers Law School.
And, with the law school's moot courtroom as our "studio," I welcome Andrea McChristian's account of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice's successful campaign to close New Jersey's 150-year-old boys' prison at Jamesburg.
My discussion of reform on other fronts continues with:
Prof. Doug Eakeley, founder of the NJISJ-led Youth Justice Initiative, and
Rev. M. William Howard, who spearheaded a pilot program, partnering juveniles convicted of crimes together with his upstanding congregation.
It's an up-to-the-minute look at a critical issue of criminal justice; a Due Process you don't want to miss.