Graves Near Youth Prison Spotlight Maryland’s Legacy of Injustice – BlackPressUSA
By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent A disturbing discovery in Maryland has reignited calls for urgent reform to the state’s youth justice system, one that critics say still reflects the racism and cruelty of its 19th-century past. In a wooded area near the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center in Prince George’s County, at least 100 unmarked graves of Black children—some dating back to the 1800s—have been uncovered near the former House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children. […]