AFSC's Seattle Community Justice Program has supported the efforts of young anti-racist organizers to derail a proposed $212 million youth jail and instead develop community-base anti-racist alternatives to detention. Now officials from King County--which includes Seattle--have announced measures to address racial disparity in the juvenile justice system.
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