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Photo Credit: Richard Ross of youth detained at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey Release of Groundbreaking National Report FAMILIES UNLOCKING FUTURES Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice Today, Tuesday, September 25, 2012, the Youth Justice Coalition, as a part of the national network Justice for Families, assembled on the steps of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration to release a report exposing the crisis in the juvenile injustice system. Based on over 1,000 surveys with parents and family members of incarcerated youth and 24 focus groups nationwide, Families Unlocking Futures aims to correct misperceptions about system-involved youth and their families, and demonstrates the need for families’ active participation in redesigning the youth justice system in order to secure safer and more prosperous communitie...