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Since Dorothea Dix declared the county’s approach to detaining kids to be perfectly flawed in 1845,...
A collage of images and documents from Marie Scott's archives. (Courtesy of Ellen Melchiondo, arranged by Miranda Jeyaretnam/PublicSource)
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Living conditions in a solitary cell at New York’s Rikers Island jail. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews
Black men comprise around 13% of the male population, yet...