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Do you believe black youth are treated
fairly by the criminal justice system? 

As long as we remain an underserved community there will always be a direct assault on black men and the community as a whole.

 Jacquetta Van Zandt
Young Professional Network
Roxbury
I don’t feel it’s fair. Even on a celebrity level: look at the way they handled both Chris Brown and Charlie Sheen’s situations.

 Juliet Sithole-Beck
Public Health
Danvers
 I think there’s a lot of systemic racism in the treatment of black people.

 Donna Stewartson
Associate Director, UMass Boston
Dorchester
Though there are certain relations which are beneficial to our young men — and have our young men’s best interest at heart — I believe there are also those who feel blacks should be put away and that rehabilitation is not the answer.

 Shawn Brown
Founder, Diamond Educators, Inc.
Roxbury
The criminal justice system needs to do more in terms of education, job training and housing, so that young men coming out of the system can be self-sufficient.

 Edward Powell
Executive Director, Street Safe
Boston
I think they’re unjustly treated and it seems like they’re incarcerated longer and trying to permanently handicap them with CORI.

 Carmela Washington
Mental Health Worker
Roxbury