Journalists writing about youth justice and incarceration often struggle with how to paint an accurate picture of the justice system, and the young people who have experienced it. On October 5, 2018, Hernan Carvente Martinez, National Youth Partnership Strategist for the Youth First Initiative and Jim St. Germain, author of A Stone of Hope: A Memoir, spoke to journalists at John Jay College in New York. Drawing on their own lived expertise with the youth justice system, both men offered advice on how to responsibly and effectively cover youth justice issues.
