These Philly youth are overrepresented in young people and criminal legal systems

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A teenager from Philadelphia grew up in the city's children's Welpon system. When she gave birth to in adolescence, the same system took her daughter with her. Their story is an example of what some supporters refer to a pipeline for the womb to the prisoner, in which young people with children's aid stories are overrepresented in every phase of adolescents and criminal legal systems.

And SPS technology was once an anchor in Abington, but the massive fire triggered questions about its future. Read on for these stories and more.

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Denaisa Hansberry joined the children's aid system at the age of 10 and later ended up in adolescence. When she brought back to the world at 19 in the city youth finding center, her daughter was accepted into the protection of custody and reset a cycle of the system participation, which, like Quicksand, can feel like the people found in it.

Hansberry's way to the youth is an amazingly frequent one for young people in the care of the Ministry of Human Management in Philadelphia: Philly -Teenager with active DHS cases are about 11 -more often than others in the city's youth hall, an analysis of the analysis of the city data that was found.

City officials say it is not a causal pipeline, but a result of causes like poverty. However, the supporters say that the correlation is also a result of repeated system errors and distortions as well as the additional surveillance layers that children are exposed to in the system.

In your own words: “I don't say that everything is the fault of the system because I can be responsible for some things I did,” Hansberry told The Inquirer. “But a lot had to do with the fact that I was taken away by my mother and was with strangers because the system thought it best for me – and it wasn't.”

The reporter Samantha Melamed examines the correlation between more children's contact and a higher risk of arrest.

In the past century, the Abnington Campus of SPS technology hundreds of residents hired at the same time and served as an anchor in the life of countless families.

🔩 But since the decimation of the 105-year-old factory last week, they make it difficult for themselves whether the manufacturer of the aerospace should be rebuilt or not.

🔩 The facility leaves its employees a contradictory legacy whether it is tidy or closed.

🔩 SPS is a “difficult place,” a former employee told the Inquirer. “It's dirty, it's loud. The working conditions were not great, but it was a good place to land for me. “

Reporter Beatrice Forman and Jesse Bunch have the story about the history of SPS technologies and the future of the future.

What you should know today

🧠 Trivia time

The connection of a Philly University to a probe to unusual gambling activities can be part A broader ring that, according to reports, touches both college basketball and the NBA. Which local school is involved?

A) Drexel University

B) University of Pennsylvania

C) Temple University

D) University of La Salle

Do you think you know? Check your answer.

What we …

💐 Planning: A visit to the flower exhibition of 2025 Philadelphia with this guide.

⚾ Enthusiastic about: Bryce Harpers New Phillies PHANTIC TATTOO.

🪤 Eat: Two great cheese steaks in South Jersey (!).

❌ In the face of: The effects of federal employees on these local former IRS employees.

🧩 decrypt the anagram

A notice: Park near the base of the Ben Franklin Bridge

Infernal Quarks

Send us an e -mail if you know the answer. We will happen to choose a reader to call out here. Cheers to Marie McCarthy, who solved Anagram on Wednesday: Please touch the museum. The cultural institution is one of three that had planned a children's fair for children in 2026, but now say that it will not happen because they could not secure the necessary funds.

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🃏 One last bizarre thing: The local clown community has found its home in West Philly Yoga Studio Studio 34, which offers events such as Fool's Yoga, clowning for collective healing and clown slam.

“Clown is one of the most important aspects of my life because I am connected to a framework for everything that I have encountered,” clown teacher Danielle Levsky told The Inquirer. “If I approach the clown lens, I can make it more curious and playful and curious as defensive.”

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