Archive:FCI-Blog

• New Forgotten Children Article on Slate: The Horrifying Secret of the Child Detention Center We Shared as Detainee and Jailer

  We encourage you to check out the new article "The Horrifying Secret of the Child Detention Center We Shared as Detainee and Jailer" just published in Slate. In it, CYJ's Marc Schindler and Georgetow

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• Thanks to All Who Joined Us for the Youth Injustice Lunch!

  A big thank you to all who joined us on Thursday, March 26th for our Youth Injustice lunch event with the McCourt Public Policy Innovation Lab! Thanks as well to our student organization co-sponsors

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• The Buried History of Cheltenham: New Podcast and Op-Ed on the Imprint!

  The Buried History of Cheltenham Don’t miss this week’s episode of the Imprint Weekly podcast “The Buried History of Cheltenham.” Our own Marc Schindler, research professor and senior fellow at th

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• Youth Injustice: The Discovery of Forgotten Children and Implications for Justice System Reform

  Join us for a lunch discussion about the policy implications following the research findings of the newly launched Forgotten Children Initiative, which seeks to document, honor, and memorialize incar

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• Thank You for Helping Us Launch the Forgotten Children Initiative (Rewatch Here)!

  Last week, we were overwhelmed with the response to the virtual launch of the Forgotten Children Initiative. Thank you to all who helped us make the launch a meaningful experience, from the panelists

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• New Push for Investigation, Legislation, and Recognition of Black Youth Who Died in State Custody

  As we head into the new year, media attention continues on the tragic stories of the children at the Cheltenham facility as Maryland lawmakers push for investigation and proper recognition of Black y

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• Four New Articles About the Maryland House of Reformation

  Since the public announcement in mid-December of Marc Schindler joining CYJ to launch the Forgotten Children Initiative, there has been a wave of articles by incredible journalists spotlighting these

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• (Re) Discovering the House of Reformation

  Researching the Past to Change the Present When Vinny Schiraldi (then with the Justice Policy Institute) and Marc Schindler (then with the Youth Law Center) were doing advocacy around juvenile jus

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• Finding the Racist Roots of Maryland’s Juvenile Justice System

  (You can find an excerpt of the op-ed written by VIncent Shiraldi below, originally published by the Marshall Project on 10/24/25) As Maryland’s secretary of juvenile services, Vincent Schiraldi e

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• Maryland must reckon with its juvenile justice past to protect today’s youth

  (This post originally appeared in The Baltimore Afro on 9/2/25)By Marc Schindler I started my legal career in the mid-1990s as a Baltimore public defender representing children in juvenile court.

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