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2 weeks ago |
boltsmag.org | Camille Squires
On a Saturday in March, approximately 60 teenagers sat in a movie theater at CityPlex12 in Newark, New Jersey eating popcorn and drinking fountain sodas. A DJ played songs by Mary J. Blige and André 3000. It wasn’t a typical Saturday at the movies—the teens were there for a youth-led forum with candidates for their school board.
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3 weeks ago |
register-herald.com | Daniel Nichanian |Camille Squires
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4 weeks ago |
boltsmag.org | Camille Squires |Piper French
When Louisiana reversed its “Raise the Age” law in early 2024, moving all 17-year-olds back into the adult criminal system, it became the first and only state in the nation to enact such a reform, intended to shield youth from adult prisons, only to then repeal it. Since then, sheriffs of some of the biggest parishes in the state have struggled to accommodate the influx of minors into their jails.
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1 month ago |
boltsmag.org | Camille Squires |Piper French
This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. On a Saturday morning in December 1993, Jimmie Christian Duncan ran to his neighbor’s house and frantically banged on the door, pleading for help. He was holding the limp body of a toddler in his arms. The child, named Haley, belonged to Duncan’s then-girlfriend. The girl’s hair was wet. She wasn’t breathing. And even after one of the neighbors tried CPR, she wouldn’t wake. Duncan, who goes by Chris, had just turned 25.
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1 month ago |
boltsmag.org | Camille Squires |Daniel Nichanian
It’s a familiar sight in Arkansas: Canvassers stop passersby in front of a local grocery store or town library and ask them if they’d be willing to sign a petition to put an initiative on the ballot. In 2024, though, citizen efforts to expand medical marijuana, enable abortion access, and protect education funding all fumbled when GOP officials declared that organizers had messed up some regulatory minutiae.
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