“Where I’m From” and Other Poems by Poets of The Nancy Jefferson Alternative School

When I speak with people about the juvenile justice system and the youth caught up in it, many of them remind me of tourists browsing a whitewater rafting brochure. Media mantras like “teenage superpredator” and “gangbanger” rely on the ignorance of the reader every bit as much as does “experience nature in a thrill ride…

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