K.M. Fullerton
Aug 19, 2021

Providing a program in a youth correctional facility we see state address the needs of BIPOC incarcerated youth over the poor white incarcerated. Whilst statistically BIPOC are over represented in the system, being a largely white state, white kids are the majority. We endeavour to ensure they have the same services and resources and appropriate cultural insights to disabuse them of white supremacist thinking (and white pride, etc) which is crippling and as harmful of BIPOC youth buying into gang culture to meet their needs. We cannot ignore one for the services to the other soley based on the concept of white privilege present for the poor, miss-educated, wounded by school, adult felony as juvenile, addicted, toxic/no family, abused white incarcerated youth.

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K.M. Fullerton
K.M. Fullerton

Written by K.M. Fullerton

An educator and juvenile justice advocate writing about life, love, justice, environment, and greening my grandchildren for a future I'll never see.

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