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As seen in: Otago Daily Times, WBUR-FM (Boston, MA), MYSA, The North Canterbury News, Pharmacy Times, Midstory
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Illinois Pioneered Juvenile Justice. Now, It’s Fighting To Reclaim Its Own Ideal.

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By Sasha Watson
| Midstory
In 1899, Illinois created the first juvenile justice system with the pioneering idea that youths needed rehabilitation rather than the punishment found in adult prisons. With this idea, the Progressive Era women of Hull-House, Chicago’s famous settlement house, succeeded in instituting the first “parental court” of Chicago. Cook County’s juvenile court in Illinois was the first of its kind not only in the nation, but in the world.
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The Catholic Church I Imagined Never Existed

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By Sasha Watson
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
When I was a child in the 1970s my mother wore her hair to her waist and rarely went to church. We lived in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, where I sometimes ventured into the homes of the Irish Catholic kids on my block. Those homes seem, in memory, to have been all wood-paneled rooms, darkened with thick curtains anddecorated with gory crucifixes. I’d stare, transfixed, at that frail and bleeding body.
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Beto and Sasha: The bizarre experience of watching my college boyfriend run for president

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By Sasha Watson
| MYSA Verified
On an afternoon in January, I sat in the library of the school in Boston where I teach, gathering my things after a faculty meeting and checking my email one last time. Already half-closing my laptop, I saw a message with the name "Beto" in the subject line. I paused for a moment, prickling with what it might mean. Then, I read it. The message was casually worded, a simple request.
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