Darrell Oldham, a co-founder of Seattle Weekly and one of AAN’s founders, passed away early Saturday morning after a battle with lung cancer. Oldham, who also spent a decade at the Seattle Times, was a beloved and respected mentor to many in alternative newsweekly and Seattle publishing circles.
Baltimore City Paper's Molly Rath, using juvenile justice documents not usually available to the public, digs deeper into why Maryland's juvenile justice system has failed the state's poor young men. While the dailies have used a lot of ink on stories about the problems with the system, none focused on those most affected, Rath says. “The more I talked to people inside, and critics outside, the system, the more I wanted to get away from them all and talk to kids, and the families,” Rath tells AAN News. Part Two of her Shackled series, nearly a year in the making, tells the story of a boy who entered the system at 11 and today, at 14, is still there, arguably worse off than when he entered.
