King County Executive Dow Constantine abruptly canceled a live State of the County address this month after demonstrators who want to stop the county from building a new youth jail showed up. Later the same day, Constantine announced that programming for the county’s existing youth jail would be taken over by its public-health agency.
Those are the latest developments in a yearslong struggle between advocates and critics of the Children and Family Justice Center, a new juvenile courthouse and detention center under construction in Seattle.
On Episode 77 of The Overcast, Dean Spade sits down with hosts Daniel Beekman of The Seattle Times and Simone Alicea of KNKX 88.5 to explain the No New Youth Jail campaign.
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Spade is an associate professor of law at the Seattle University School of Law who teaches…
