The sexual abuse-to-prison pipeline leaves youth highly vulnerable to the juvenile justice system, disproportionately affecting girls, gender expansive, trans and gender-nonconconforming youth. And even more so, youth of color.
Haillie Parker
Haillie Parker is a San Diego native and a master’s student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. After earning a bachelor’s degree in film from ASU in 2015, she then worked as an actor for the Walt Disney Company. Since joining the Cronkite School, Parker has reported stories of everyday people — stories rooted in emotion and human connection. She has interviewed psychic healers in Sedona, Arizona, and traveled to one of the southernmost parts of Panama to report on the struggles of pregnant migrants on their way to the U.S.
How many downward dogs does it take to reduce recidivism?
The Art of Yoga Project brings movement and art curriculums to the underserved and at-risk youth of Northern California’s juvenile justice system.
Art helps men incarcerated as kids push through trauma
Aaron Kinzel is helping men like him, who were incarcerated as teenagers, to talk about their mental health and create art reflecting their experiences.
137-year-old nonprofit fights for girls
Founded in 1883, National Crittenton was the first group to open its doors to young women pushed to the edges of society, providing a safe place to sleep, community and emotional support. National Crittenton still wrestles against the risk factors — sex trafficking, domestic violence and poverty — that drove girls into the juvenile justice system more than a century ago, and still do today.