Humanizing Youth of Color & Challenging Adultification, Transfer, & Severe Sentences

In this session of our 2022 Racial Justice Training Series and Book Club, Prof. Kristin Henning and Mary Ann Scali were joined by Eric Campbell, formerly incarcerated founder of Some People Understand Differently (SPUD), Inc.; Carmen Daugherty, Deputy Executive Director of Advancement Project; and Kristen Rome, Co-Executive Director of Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights.

This session was built around Chapter 10, The Dehumanization of Black Youth: When the Children Aren’t Children Anymore, of Prof. Henning’s book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.