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We Asked 123 Young People in Prison...WHY? (2018)

Titus, Jennifer

NEWS 7 Articles (Tampa, FL)

Published: 9:00 AM EST February 28, 2018

“Over the past year, we mailed out more than 100 questionnaires to young people in prison, ranging from 18-20 years old. All of the men and women we reached out to had lengthy criminal histories as juveniles. We asked them questions like, ‘How old were they when they committed their first crime?’ to “What could your parents, teachers, law enforcement have done?” Every time we mailed out a handful, within days, responses started to come back. There are also links to copies of the responses that were returned.” Results are provided to the survey of eleven questions along with copies of selected responses.

“When you’re doing the crime, you don’t want to think about jail. And if you get in trouble, you just accept it and you go to jail. I was never scared of the consequences.”

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