Because of the engagement with youth who are directly impacted and are subjected to systemic abuse, whether it started in the home, whether the community,

whether it was institutions' responses, the harms that was caused by marginalized people, you begin to not only internalize your own suffering,

but that of others.

What's going on everybody? My name is Clint Smith and I'm Josie Duffy Rice and this is

Justice in America. Each show we discuss a topic in the American criminal justice system

and try to explain what it is and how it works.

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We opened the show with a clip from our guest Abdullah Latif, who is the Pennsylvania

coordinator for the Incarcerated Children's Advocacy Network,

co-founder of the Redemption Project and Chairman of the Organization Life After Life.

Today we're talking about something very important and honestly a little

disturbing and that's the juvenile justice system what it looks like who is

housing and how we got here. But first we are going to talk about our word of the day, which I

guess today is a phrase. Well it's not really a phrase honestly, it's more like an idea.

A concept. Exactly, it's a concept so today's concept of the day is

cost per inmate which kind of could still be a phrase yeah it's kind of a phrase

concept hybrid it's kind of a phrase concept, hybrid.

It's a weird phrase, it's an awkward phrase,

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