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Our Justice System Needs to Protect Children's Human Rights

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Bernardine Dohrn is the founding director of the Center for Children and Family Justice at Northwestern Law School. In this article, she talks about the need to reform our court system so that it protects children's human and constitutional rights.

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Why Young People Falsely Confess to Police

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Steve Drizin is the legal director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions and an expert on false confessions. In this piece, he describes why juveniles are more likely to confess to crimes they did not commit than adults.

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WATCH: This short video will break your heart and inspire you

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This video on the wrongful convictions of young people is part of the launch for a new project at Northwestern Law School called the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. Read more ... (53 views)

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The worst wrongful conviction in US history

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In 1970, Barney Brown was a 13-year-old African American child was falsely accused of raping a white woman. He served 38 years in jail.

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What does Lake County have against DNA evidence?

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This post concludes with a wrongful conviction everyone in the Chicago area should know about.

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WATCH: Watch: Video of Illinois' most recent exoneree, Ronald Kitchen

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On Tuesday, July 07, 2009, Ronald Kitchen, who confessed under extreme physical duress to a taking part in five murders 21 years ago, was exonerated and freed from prison.

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Windy City blogger in New York Times

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The front page of The New York Times features Johnnie Lee Savory in a story about prosecutors resistance: http://justiceforsavory.windycitizen.com/

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Recently exonerated man dying to see a Cubs game

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Talk about a real Cubs fan. Thaddeus Jimenez spent 16 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was exonerated May 1, 2009. Now that he is a free man, all he wants is to go to a Cubs game.

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WATCH: The Exoneration of Thaddeus Jimenez

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Chicagoan Thaddeus Jimenez ("TJ") is the youngest person at the time of his arrest ever to be exonerated in Illinois and likely in all of the United States.

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WATCH: Sofas: a Chicagoan's story about the meaning of life, love, and community.

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"Sofas" is one of those internet videos that you are going to e-mail to all your friends and post on your facebook page.

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Web site: http://www.chicagohomeless.org/

Neighborhood: Evanston

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John Maki is a new media consultant for Chicago non-profits. In his spare time, John is also a multi-media producer and contributor for The Windy Citizen. Before working in new media, John taught high school literature, and before that was a graduate student in English literature at the University of Chicago. John is currently in his third year at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

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