Juvenile Justice is a caste system
where shackled and chained kids of color
replay the tearful trek
from plantation to prison—

America’s new slavery

Young lives languishing in cell blocks
where the light of day is lost
in a dungeon of desperation
and despair

America’s new slavery

Why are they here?
To protect society?

Do we dare defeat the evils of poverty
race privilege and war?
Destroy the prison-industrial machine?

America’s new slavery