THE JUSTICE PROJECT by Michael Betcherman
When a freak snowboarding accident ends his promising football future, Matt Barnes was left him with a permanent limp. Depressed and isolated, he faces a summer job at the local golf club. Then Matt lands an internship at the Justice Project, an organization that defends the wrongly convicted. The other intern is his high-school nemesis, Sonya Livingstone, a social activist with little time for jock culture. The two investigate the case of Ray Richardson.
THE DOZIER SCHOOL FOR BOYS by Elizabeth A. Murray, PhD
From the outside, the Dozier School for Boys in Florida looked utterly charming. But the reality of life at Dozier was ugly. In 2008, almost one hundred years after the reform school's founding, Robert Straley and Roger Dean Kiser discovered they shared similar abusive experiences while students at the Dozier School for Boys. They recalled vicious punishments at a campus building called the white house, where staff used a leather strap to beat inmates.
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THIS IS MY AMERICA by Kim Johnson
Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE REAL ME: Young Voices from Prison by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
The Untold Story of the Real Me is a collection of poems written by young people who were charged and incarcerated as adults at the age of 16 or 17. All poets are members of the Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop; many are currently incarcerated in the DC Jail or federal prison. Their work explores themes of parenthood, love, pain, identity, race, and freedom in voices both raw and powerful.
MY STORY STARTS HERE: VOICES OF YOUNG OFFENDERS by Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories. Every story is different, but there are common threads -- loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination. Most of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can't we do better?