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Victim of Sex Trafficking in U.S. Tells Her Story
Theresa Fisher / JJIELaura Abasi* became a victim of sex trafficking when she was 18 years old. It’s part of the game. Because you got to establish a certain thing. You got to establish some fear in...
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Blood Feud in Harlem Takes Young Lives, Hurts Community
“A lot of parents out here are scared of their own kids”: Venus Singleton, the mother of a boy shot as part of the blood feud between rival houses in Harlem. Robert Stolarik / JJIENEW YORK -- The...
View ArticleMiracle at State Correctional Institution Forest
Juan (name changed), convicted of aggravated assault at 21, has been in solitary for five years. He has seen and experienced it all: brutal cell extractions, hunger strikes, flooded pods and endless...
View ArticleIn for Life, After a Life of Abuse
The violence I was exposed to at an early age shaped who I became. It desensitized my perspective on violence, numbed my cries and dumbed down violence to the point I stopped asking why. I developed a...
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Who Knows Why California Crime By Youth Is Plummeting?
The good news: California’s arrests of youths plunged another 17% in 2018 to the lowest levels ever recorded. The bad news: An arrested youth’s odds of being formally sentenced by a juvenile or adult...
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Trauma for Youth Is Everywhere … But We Can Heal It in Newark
On a sunny afternoon in 2006, I was driving my four sons to a cookout in Newark, N.J., my hometown. We had stopped at an intersection when a group of teenagers spilled into the street behind us. They...
View ArticleJacksonville Organization Attacks Violence, Blight With Holistic Approach
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On Nov. 14, Gary Ervin attended a vigil for a young life cut tragically short by gun violence. Days earlier, a 15-year-old was killed in a shooting near a Burger King on the...
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A Pistol Bought in Mississippi Killed a Teen in Chicago
Malcolm Stuckey was pulling up in a burgundy Pontiac Grand Prix to his friend’s birthday party in Chicago’s once-prosperous Englewood neighborhood when a bullet fired from a gun, bought 840 miles away...
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Millions in seized money expanded Harlem youth hub’s “credible messenger”...
Just weeks into his second prison stay — serving a 23-month sentence for charges including gun possession and attempted murder — Dedric “Bad News” Hammond decided to course-correct. He found a path...
View ArticleGun violence claiming more lives of American teens, children
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Gun violence is killing an increasing number of American children, from toddlers caught in crossfires to teenagers gunned down in turf wars, drug squabbles or for posting the wrong...
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