Forum Targets Racism In Maine Juvenile Justice System

AUGUSTA — More than 40 people discussed the effect of racism in Maine’s juvenile justice system during a forum Tuesday night at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta. The Injustice in Justice forum included several speakers, breakout sessions and group conversations on how to come up with tangible ways to combat systemic racism in Maine’s legal and correctional system. The purpose of the forum was not just to look at and learn about racism, but to see it, said Jerome Bennett, the disproportionate minority contact coordinator for the Maine Department of Corrections. “We have to see it, because when we see, we don’t forget,” Bennett said. Much of the discussion centered on a 2015 University of Southern Maine study on the disproportionate number of  people of color in the state’s juvenile justice system.

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