More than 32,000 people incarcerated in the United States were sentenced as kids, report says
About a third received lengthy or life sentences
Criminal records can lock people out of housing assistance. HUD’s creating new rules to help
“One strike and you’re out” rules from the 90s limit housing opportunities
Some states are using a phone tax to fund their 988 hotline
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