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Incarcerated Los Angeles 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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Having enshrined youths’ right to hug parents during visits behind bars, activists are pushing for decarceration. 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.
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