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No Country for Young Men

Loaded on Oct. 28, 2014 by Dana Goldstein

Filed under: Sentencing, Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons. Location: West Virginia.

Junior Smith was a troubled kid who needed help. Instead, West Virginia sent him to jail.

By Dana Goldstein, October 6, 2014

On Feb. 27, 2013, 17-year-old Junior Smith was summoned to the front office of his Philippi, West Virginia, high school. It was ...

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