6-28-2018 Targeting the Most Vulnerable: Children in Detention in the US and Palestine Alice Rothchild, MD. Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/06/targeting-vulnerable-detention/

 

...there is much we can learn from research in the US and from the Israeli experience with regard to children and prisons...

One group is suffering from gangs, poverty, drugs, repression, and violent societies while the other is suffering from a brutal military occupation, recurrent IDF incursions, soldier and settler violence, home demolitions, and poverty. Under these circumstances, taking dangerous desert journeys at the hands of coyotes or heaving a stone at a jeep spewing teargas is an understandable response. Imprisoning either group is a political and racialized decision that creates deep and long-lasting trauma in the children and their families...

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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