Bad Food, a Bible, and a Blanket: 24 Hours in Juvenile Solitary Confinement

Bad Food, a Bible, and a Blanket: 24 Hours in Juvenile Solitary Confinement” by Jakob Schiller

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As a photographer, how far would you go to get in the heads of your subjects? For Richard Ross, it meant 24 hours in solitary confinement at a juvenile detention center. Over six years, Ross has photographed hundreds of detention centers and interviewed more than a 1,000 children for a project called Juvenile-in-Justice that aims to educate people about the juvenile justice system. He’s as familiar as any outsider with the subject, but he decided it wasn’t enough.