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For Texas Schoolchildren, Minor Misbehavior Can Mean Criminal Charges

Kristian Hernández, Asher Lehrer-Small, Clare Amari and Rosie Cima The New York Times
More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school. Children ages 10 to 13 were referred for prosecution after incidents in schools more than 47,000 times since 2014...

How Can We End Child Sexual Abuse Without Prisons?

child holding had of another person How can we disrupt and end child sexual abuse without turning to police and a racist prison industrial complex that disproportionately criminalizes, arrests and imprisons Black and Indigenous people...

Capernaum |Movie

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki's Capernaum ("Chaos") tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the "crime" of giving him life. Full review.

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Outings, Stigmata

Francesca Bell Pank Magazine
The Marin County poet Francesca Bell approaches the abuse of children from their own perspective, as sacrilege, based on published testimonies.
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