Justice by Geography? Addressing Juvenile Detention

Michigan’s Children’s Host Matt Gillard is joined on the Speaking
for Kids podcast by three special guests to discuss glaring
problems that came to light in the Wayne County youth detention
system this fall. In a series of investigative reports by the
Detroit Free Press, issues surfaced in the ways youths were
detained before moving to their treatment plans - often for
prolonged periods of time and in inhumane conditions – inside
Wayne County’s Juvenile Detention Facility this past year. What
does it say about the way we rehabilitate - or don’t rehabilitate
- youth offenders, and the need for reforms? What should be done
to more effectively move youth offenders on the road to
rehabilitation for society’s benefit and their own? Guests:
Detroit Free Press Investigative Reporter Christine
MacDonald, Wayne County Parent Dinah
Campbell, Lobbyist Rusty Merchant,
McAlvey Merchant & Associates.