Fixing What’s Wrong with Florida’s Youth Prisons

The Miami Herald featured an op-ed by Candice Jones, Public Welfare Foundation President and CEO and two other youth justice experts urging Florida to close its youth detention centers.

Fixing What’s Wrong with Florida’s Youth Prisons

In an opinion piece for The Miami Herald, Candice Jones, Public Welfare Foundation President and CEO; Patrick McCarthy, President and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation; and Vincent Schiraldi, Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Justice Lab, urge Florida to close its youth detention centers in the wake of a Herald investigative series detailing a pattern of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of children in custody.