As you know, I was initially skeptical of the need for a second Juvenile Court judicial position when Commissioner Deidre Malone first brought it up earlier this month.
However, after learning of the story of Braxton Moore, I am far less skeptical than I was at first. Braxton is 13 years old; however, he functions on the level of a 7-year-old, and he is being bounced around the Juvenile Court System because he was caught with older youths in a series of robberies.
Chaplain Novella Smith Arnold, along with attorney William T. Winchester, has taken up the plight of Braxton Moore, and started a blog to keep everyone aware of the situation, at Braxton & Friends, which you will also see near the top of THE ENDLESS BLOGROLL over on the right side of this blog.
Please go there and read about this situation, and learn how you can aid in this fight; you'll be glad that you did.
1 comment:
One thing I do know about is being locked up in a criminal justice system that has turned into nothing more than a people farm.
They want to fill the beds and they don't give a flying fuck who they fill them with.
Braxton is one of many challenged people who will be scarred by the experience of living in a lock-up environment.
The system simply does not care what happens to him.
Of course, this is the same "system" that tortures college students with tazers for not having ID, and makes naked pyramids out of prisoners of war.
The same system that I saw murder a prisoner in order to avoid paying for his health care.
Awareness is a good start.
Thanx LWC.
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