Juvenile Injustice: A Proposal for Reform

Posted by on September 16, 2005

Juvenile Injustice: A Proposal for Reform

featuring

Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.

Charles Ogletree is a Professor at the Harvard Law School and Author of ?All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education?

Also With

Bilal Qayyum, President, Fathers Day Rally Committee
Robert G. Schwartz, Executive Director, Juvenile Law Center

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Refreshments 5:30pm to 6:30pm – Forum 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Book signing 8:30pm

Moore College of Art & Design
20th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway

There is NO CHARGE for this event & seating is limited.

RSVP & REGISTER BY OCTOBER 4TH
CALL 215-563-5848 ext 11
Or register online http://www.pccy.org/ ? click on ?FORGING THE FUTURE?

Federal statistics show that nearly two-thirds of children who are processed through the U.S. juvenile justice system wind up in the adult felony system within five years. Increasingly, younger and younger children are being adjudicated, yet the system has failed to provide the support they need to productively move on with their lives.

The juvenile justice system is supposed to help kids who go wrong straighten up ? not serve as pre-school for prison. But too frequently, it makes bad kids worse or places them in danger of exploitation and abuse. While juvenile justice policies and procedures in Philadelphia have improved in recent years, there is still much to be done.

Join us for an interactive and informative evening with Professor Charles Ogletree, who will share his ideas for reforming the juvenile ?injustice? system. We?ll examine strategies to unlock the future ? so that juvenile dispositions can mark a new beginning, rather than a dead end, for kids and communities.

This forum is part of PCCY?s continuing ?Forging The Future? forum series.