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From NPR:

In the confines of jail cells, photographer Richard Ross documents children’s experiences. He snaps pictures without revealing his subjects’ faces, aiming to “give them a voice.”

The Juvenile-In-Justice project includes photographs of more than 100 facilities in 30 states. The project’s website has numerous images and quotes from incarcerated children.

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Ross argues in a caption that “institutionalizing juveniles and branding this as criminal behavior rather than dealing with it as normal behavior wrongly places juveniles in places they should not be.”

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