Juvenile Justice Quotes

“I do all I can to let my students feel as normal as possible, as far from institutionalized. I see how easy it is to allow this conveyor belt of incarceration bring them from my facility to an adult detention, often for the rest of their lives.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition (Contemporary World Issues

“Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what they’ve been told all their lives: that they are worthless and that they will die or be incarcerated before they reach twenty-five.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition (Contemporary World Issues