Wendy Kaplan

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Wendy Kaplan is a clinical professor of law at Boston University School of Law, where she teaches juvenile delinquency and supervises students in the Criminal Defender Program.

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Immigrant children walk in a line outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children a former Job Corps site that now houses them, on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in Homestead, Fla. (Brynn Anderson/AP)

Zero Tolerance And Detention Don't Work In Juvenile Justice. They Don't Work In Immigration Either

We know from juvenile justice that zero-tolerance and detention harm rather than help children, write Sarah Sherman-Stokes and Wendy Kaplan. Our immigration policy should reflect those lessons.

Cognoscenti

Jul 18, 2018