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Incarcerated LA Youth Fought for the Right to Hug Their Parents — and Won
Having enshrined youths’ right to hug parents during visits behind bars, activists are pushing for decarceration.
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Mercedes Maradiaga sat across from her 19-year-old son in the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles in complete devastation. Her son had at that point been incarcerated at the prison for two years and she had visited him every weekend. But that day in September 2024 was especially hard because it was their first visit since he had been beaten by officers earlier that week in a space in the…
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