A review by xcampuskiddo
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison by Nell Bernstein

5.0

I yelled at the pages, I tried to figure out what to set fire to first, I found despair and I found hope - this is an excellently researched, emotionally riveting account of life in juvenile prisons and the ways in which the system has been reformed, regressed, and been entirely overturned in some states. It is a call - a plea - to do better by all children so that all of society will not continue to suffer.