WHERE ARE YOUTH INCARCERATED?

from Abolish New York City's Youth Punishment Systems

by Peer Defense Project at IntegrateNYC

R E - E N T R Y R E S O U R C E S

D epending on case disposit ion or sent ence, y ou t h will be incar cer at ed in one of sev er al facilit ies acr oss t he st at e of New Yor k.

To Prisoners

I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark. Dark gardening in the vertigo cold. In the hot paralysis. Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences. Where it is dry. Where it is dry. I call for you cultivation of victory Over long blows that you want to give and blows you are going to get.

Over what wants to crumble you down, to sicken you. I call for you cultivation of strength to heal and enhance in the non-cheering dark, in the many many mornings-after; in the chalk and choke.

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1981

WHERE ARE YOUTH INCARCERATED?

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