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Images of Detained Children Haunt U.S. Senate Rotunda [JJIE.org]

  

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The 10-year-old boy stands with his back to the camera and his hands in his pockets in a bare white cinderblock cell in the juvenile detention center.

In text beneath the haunting image, the boy explains: “I’m waiting for my mom to come get me. … She’s at work today. I want to go home. I got in trouble at school today.”

Another image shows a full-length silhouette of a pregnant 16-year-old girl in a cell who says her only crime was running away from home.

They’re among the 15 images by photographer Richard Ross being showcased this week in an exhibit on juvenile detention in the Senate Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington.

 

[For more of this story, written by Gary Gately, go to http://jjie.org/images-of-deta...nate-rotunda/107565/]

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