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Children from poor neighbourhoods go to prison because they suffer harassment by law enforcement and police violence.
Ms Goffman said in her speech, when she talks about what happened to the two boys, Tim and Chuck, that if they lived in a neighbourhood where children go to university, like the one where she grew up, where privileged people live, they would not have gone through what they went through because, in her neighbourhood, young people do exactly the same thing with impunity.
Discuss the ways in which we are seeing progress in the criminal justice system today and explain what spurred this change.
Prison is expensive, about $40,000 a year is the price to pay for sending a young person to prison in New Jersey. This amount, being paid for by the taxpayer, is most useful and beneficial when used to provide education and support to young people.
This approach has already begun to be used successfully in several states in the United States (New York, New Jersey and California) and has resulted in fewer people being incarcerated, closed institutions and lower crime rates.
The United States Congress is working on reforming the criminal justice system to make it less unjust.
A criminal justice system that prioritises prevention and civic inclusion, that is able to recognise the legacy of exclusion faced by poor people of colour, is a fair system.
