Prison Kids: Juvenile Justice in America

We incarcerate children at a higher rate than any other developed country. Kids make mistakes sometimes large, sometimes small. And every day in America, they can be locked up in stark, mismanaged jails and marked for life. Fusion, Incarcerated Nation traveled across the country, gathering the stories of kids who grew up behind bars. We found children subjected to solitary confinement; mental health problems; physical and mental abuse; racial inequities; lives ruined forever at an early age. We found a system thats supposed to help kids, but often sets them adrift. Presented by entrepreneur, music mogul and activist Russell Simmons and narrated by Empire actress Gabourey Sidibe, this hourlong documentary investigation, Prison Kids, is the result of Fusions work. It is a story about how to take children and ostracize them, derange them, outlaw them. It is the story of Americas crimes against spending years trapped inside a sixbyninefoot cage of solid gray steel wal