Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison

Prevodilac: Katarina Kosmina Lektor: Ivana Korom

On the path that American children travel to adulthood,

Na putu odrastanja američke dece,

two institutions oversee the journey.

dve institucije služe kao supervizori.

The first is the one we hear a lot about: college.

O prvoj znamo dosta: fakultet.

Some of you may remember the excitement that you felt

Neki od vas se sećaju uzbuđenja koje su osećali

when you first set off for college.

kada su prvi put krenuli na fakultet.

Some of you may be in college right now

Neki od vas su tamo trenutno

and you're feeling this excitement at this very moment.

i uzbuđeni su ovog trenutka.

College has some shortcomings.

Fakultet ima određene mane.

It's expensive; it leaves young people in debt.

Skup je: ostavlja mlade ljude sa dugom.

But all in all, it's a pretty good path.

Ali sve u svemu, to je poprilično dobar životni put.

Young people emerge from college with pride and with great friends

Mladi ljudi završavaju fakultet sa ponosom, dobrim prijateljima,

and with a lot of knowledge about the world.

i dosta znanja o svetu.

And perhaps most importantly,

I možda najvažnije,

a better chance in the labor market than they had before they got there.

sa boljom šansom na tržištu rada nego što su imali pre nego što su tamo otišli

Today I want to talk about the second institution

Danas želim da razgovaram o drugoj instituciji

overseeing the journey from childhood to adulthood in the United States.

koja nadzire put od detinjstva do zrelosti u Americi.

And that institution is prison.

I ta institucija je zatvor.

Young people on this journey are meeting with probation officers

Mladi ljudi se na ovom putu susreću sa nadzornicima za uslovnu slobodu

instead of with teachers.

umesto sa učiteljima.

They're going to court dates instead of to class.

Idu na sud umesto u učionicu.

Their junior year abroad is instead a trip to a state correctional facility.

Njihova treća godina fakulteta je, umesto na razmeni, provedena u zatvoru.

And they're emerging from their 20s

I oni izlaze iz svoji dvadesetih,

not with degrees in business and English,

bez diplome biznisa ili engleskog jezika,

but with criminal records.

ali sa kriminalnim dosijeom.

This institution is also costing us a lot,

Ova institucija nas takođe dosta košta,

about 40,000 dollars a year

oko 40.000 dolara godišnje

to send a young person to prison in New Jersey.

da bismo poslali mladu osobu u zatvor u Nju Džerziju.

But here, taxpayers are footing the bill

Ali ovde poreznici plaćaju zakon,

and what kids are getting is a cold prison cell

i ono što deca dobijaju je hladna zatvorska ćelija

and a permanent mark against them when they come home

i trajno obeležje koje ih sputava kada se vrate kući

and apply for work.

i prijave za posao.

There are more and more kids on this journey to adulthood

Sve je više dece na ovom putu ka odrastanju

than ever before in the United States and that's because in the past 40 years,

nego što je ikad bilo u SAD-u i to je zato što je, u proteklih 40 godina,

our incarceration rate has grown by 700 percent.

naša stopa zatvaranja porasla za 700 posto.

I have one slide for this talk.

Imam samo jedan slajd za ovaj govor.

Here it is.

Evo ga.

Here's our incarceration rate,

Ovo je naša stopa zatvaranja,

about 716 people per 100,000 in the population.

oko 716 ljudi po 100.000 stanovnika populacije.

Here's the OECD countries.

Ovo su OEES zemlje.

What's more, it's poor kids that we're sending to prison,

Štaviše, siromašnu decu šaljemo u zatvor,

too many drawn from African-American and Latino communities

previše njih iz afroameričkih i latinoameričkih zajednica

so that prison now stands firmly between the young people trying to make it

tako da sada zatvor čvrsto stoji između mladih ljudi koji pokušavaju da uspeju

and the fulfillment of the American Dream.

i ispunjenja američkog sna.

The problem's actually a bit worse than this

Problem je čak gori od ovoga

'cause we're not just sending poor kids to prison,

jer ne samo da šaljemo siromašnu decu u zatvor,

we're saddling poor kids with court fees,

mi tovarimo siromašnu decu sa sudskim taksama,

with probation and parole restrictions,

sa ograničenjima probnih i uslovnih otpusta,

with low-level warrants,

sa niskim poternicama,

we're asking them to live in halfway houses and on house arrest,

tražimo od njih da žive u prihvatilištima i u kućnom pritvoru,

and we're asking them to negotiate a police force

i tražimo od njih da pregovaraju sa policijom

that is entering poor communities of color,

koja ulazi u njihove siromašne rasno manjinske zajednice

not for the purposes of promoting public safety,

ne zato da bi promovisali javnu bezbednost,

but to make arrest counts, to line city coffers.

već da bi uhapsili dovoljno da zadovolje gradske blagajne.

This is the hidden underside to our historic experiment in punishment:

Ovo je skrivena strana našeg istorijskog eksperimentisanja sa kaznenim sistemom:

young people worried that at any moment, they will be stopped, searched and seized.

mladi ljudi su zabrinuti da će bilo kada biti zaustavljeni, pretraženi i uhapšeni.

Not just in the streets, but in their homes,

Ne samo na ulici, već i u sopstenim domovima,

at school and at work.

u školi i na poslu.

I got interested in this other path to adulthood

Počela sam da se interesujem za ovaj drugi put ka odrastanju

when I was myself a college student

kada sam bila student

attending the University of Pennsylvania

na Univerzitetu Pensilvanije

in the early 2000s.

ranih 2000-ih.

Penn sits within a historic African-American neighborhood.

Univerzitet se nalazi u istorijskom afroameričkom kraju.

So you've got these two parallel journeys going on simultaneously:

Tako da u isto vreme postoje ova dva paralelna puta:

the kids attending this elite, private university,

deca koja idu na ovaj elitni, privatni univerzitet

and the kids from the adjacent neighborhood,

i deca iz susednog kraja,

some of whom are making it to college,

od kojih neka idu na fakultet,

and many of whom are being shipped to prison.

a od kojih su mnogi poslati u zatvor.

In my sophomore year, I started tutoring a young woman who was in high school

U mojoj drugoj godini, postala sam privatni učitelj mladoj srednjoškolki

who lived about 10 minutes away from the university.

koja je živela 10 minuta od mog univerziteta.

Soon, her cousin came home from a juvenile detention center.

Uskoro, njen rođak se vratio iz maloletničkog zatvora.

He was 15, a freshman in high school.

Imao je 15 godina, prva godina srednje škole.

I began to get to know him and his friends and family,

Počela sam da upoznajem njega i njegove prijatelje i porodicu,

and I asked him what he thought about me writing about his life

i pitala sam ga šta misli o tome što pišem o njegovom životu

for my senior thesis in college.

za moj diplomski.

This senior thesis became a dissertation at Princeton

Ovaj diplomski je postao disertacija na Prinstonu

and now a book.

i sada knjiga.

By the end of my sophomore year,

Do kraja moje druge godine,

I moved into the neighborhood and I spent the next six years

preselila sam se u ovaj kraj i provela narednih šest godina

trying to understand what young people were facing as they came of age.

pokušavajući da razumem sa čim se mladi susreću kako odrastaju.

The first week I spent in this neighborhood,

Prve nedelje koju sam provela u ovom kraju

I saw two boys, five and seven years old,

videla sam dva dečaka, od 5 i 7 godina,

play this game of chase,

kako se igraju jureći se,

where the older boy ran after the other boy.

stariji dečak je jurio mlađeg.

He played the cop.

Glumio je policajca.

When the cop caught up to the younger boy,

Kada je policajac stigao mlađeg dečaka,

he pushed him down,

gurnuo ga je na zemlju,

handcuffed him with imaginary handcuffs,

stavio zamišljene lisice,

took a quarter out of the other child's pocket,

i uzeo mu novčić iz džepa,

saying, "I'm seizing that."

govoreći: "Konfiskujem ovo."

He asked the child if he was carrying any drugs

Pitao je dečaka da li nosi drogu

or if he had a warrant.

i da li za njim postoji poternica.

Many times, I saw this game repeated,

Videla sam kako se ova igra često ponavlja

sometimes children would simply give up running,

nekada bi deca jednostavno odustala od jurcanja,

and stick their bodies flat against the ground

i prislonila svoja tela na zemlju

with their hands above their heads, or flat up against a wall.

sa rukama iznad glave ili naslonjenim na zid.

Children would yell at each other,

Deca bi se drala jedna na druge,

"I'm going to lock you up,

"Uhapsiću te!

I'm going to lock you up and you're never coming home!"

Uhapsiću te i nikada se nećeš vratiti kući!"

Once I saw a six-year-old child pull another child's pants down

Jednom sam videla šestogodišnjaka kako spušta drugom detetu pantalone

and try to do a cavity search.

i pokušava da ga pretraži.

In the first 18 months that I lived in this neighborhood,

Prvih 18 meseci koje sam provela u tom kraju,

I wrote down every time I saw any contact between police

svaki put sam zapisala kada sam videla bilo koji kontakt između policije

and people that were my neighbors.

i ljudi koji su mi susedi.

So in the first 18 months,

Tako da sam prvih 18 meseci

I watched the police stop pedestrians or people in cars,

gledala kako policajci zaustavljaju pešake ili ljude u kolima,

search people, run people's names,

pretražuju ljude, njihova imena,

chase people through the streets,

kako ih jure kroz ulice,

pull people in for questioning,

vode na ispitivanje,

or make an arrest every single day, with five exceptions.

ili kako hapse svaki dan, sa pet izuzetaka.

Fifty-two times, I watched the police break down doors,

52 puta, gledala sam kako policija obara vrata,

chase people through houses

juri ljude kroz kuće

or make an arrest of someone in their home.

ili hapsi nekoga u njihovoj kući.

Fourteen times in this first year and a half,

14 puta tokom prvih godinu i po,

I watched the police punch, choke, kick, stomp on or beat young men

gledala sam kako policajci udaraju, dave, šutiraju, gaze ili tuku mlade muškarce

after they had caught them.

nakon što su ih uhvatili.

Bit by bit, I got to know two brothers,

Malo po malo, upoznala sam dva brata,

Chuck and Tim.

Čaka i Tima.

Chuck was 18 when we met, a senior in high school.

Čak je imao 18 kad smo se upoznali, poslednja godina srednje.

He was playing on the basketball team and making C's and B's.

Igrao je za košarkaški tim i dobijao trojke i četvorke.

His younger brother, Tim, was 10.

Njegov mlađi brat, Tim, imao je 10.

And Tim loved Chuck; he followed him around a lot,

I Tim je voleo Čaka, uvek ga je pratio,

looked to Chuck to be a mentor.

ugledao se na njega.

They lived with their mom and grandfather

Živeli su sa svojom majkom i dedom

in a two-story row home with a front lawn and a back porch.

u dvospratnoj kući sa prednjim travnjakom i terasom pozadi.

Their mom was struggling with addiction all while the boys were growing up.

Njihova majka se mučila sa zavisnošću dok su dečaci odrastali.

She never really was able to hold down a job for very long.

Nije mogla da zadrži posao dugo.

It was their grandfather's pension that supported the family,

Dedina penzija je izdržavala porodicu,

not really enough to pay for food and clothes

ne baš dovoljno da plati za hranu i odeću

and school supplies for growing boys.

i školsku opremu za dečake.

The family was really struggling.

Porodica se zaista mučila.

So when we met, Chuck was a senior in high school.

Tako da, kada smo se upoznali, Čak je bio poslednja godina srednje škole.

He had just turned 18.

Upravo je napunio 18.

That winter, a kid in the schoolyard

Te zime, dečko u školskom dvorištu

called Chuck's mom a crack whore.

je nazvao Čakovu majku zavisničkom kurvom.

Chuck pushed the kid's face into the snow

Čak je gurnuo glavu dečaka u sneg

and the school cops charged him with aggravated assault.

i školski policajci su ga uhapsili zbog teškog telesnog napada.

The other kid was fine the next day,

Drugi dečak je bio dobro sutradan,

I think it was his pride that was injured more than anything.

mislim da je najviše njegov ponos bio povređen.

But anyway, since Chuck was 18,

Ali svejedno, pošto je Čak imao 18,

this agg. assault case sent him to adult county jail

ovaj teški telesni napad ga je poslao u zatvor za odrasle

on State Road in northeast Philadelphia,

na Stejt putu u severoistočnoj FIladelfiji,

where he sat, unable to pay the bail -- he couldn't afford it --

gde je čekao, bez mogućnosti da plati kauciju,

while the trial dates dragged on and on and on

dok su se sudski datumi odugovlačili

through almost his entire senior year.

kroz skoro celu njegovu poslednju godinu.

Finally, near the end of this season,

Konačno, pred kraj ovog perioda,

the judge on this assault case threw out most of the charges

sudija na ovom slučaju je odbacio većinu optužbi

and Chuck came home

i Čak se vratio kući

with only a few hundred dollars' worth of court fees hanging over his head.

sa samo nekoliko stotina dolara sudskih taksi.

Tim was pretty happy that day.

Tim je bio prilično srećan taj dan.

The next fall, Chuck tried to re-enroll as a senior,

Sledeće jeseni Čak je pokušao da se ponovo upiše u srednju

but the school secretary told him that

ali mu je sekretarica rekla

he was then 19 and too old to be readmitted.

da ima 19 godina i da je previše star da bi bio primljen.

Then the judge on his assault case issued him a warrant for his arrest

Onda je sudija na njegovom slučaju izdao poternicu za njim

because he couldn't pay the 225 dollars in court fees

zato što nije mogao da plati 225 dolara za sudske takse

that came due a few weeks after the case ended.

koje su usledile nekoliko nedelja nakon što se slučaj završio.

Then he was a high school dropout living on the run.

Što znači da je bio begunac sa nezavršenom srednjom školom.

Tim's first arrest came later that year

Timov prvi nalog za hapšenje je stigao

after he turned 11.

te godine, nakon što je napunio 11.

Chuck had managed to get his warrant lifted

Čak je uspeo da ukloni svoju poternicu

and he was on a payment plan for the court fees

i bio je na planu plaćanja za sudske takse

and he was driving Tim to school in his girlfriend's car.

i vozio je Tima u školu kolima svoje devojke.

So a cop pulls them over, runs the car,

Policajac ih zaustavi, proveri vozilo,

and the car comes up as stolen in California.

i vidi da je automobil ukraden u Kaliforniji.

Chuck had no idea where in the history of this car it had been stolen.

Čak nije imao pojma kada je tačno taj automobil bio ukraden.

His girlfriend's uncle bought it from a used car auction

Ujak njegove devojke ga je kupio na aukciji polovnih vozila

in northeast Philly.

u severoistočnoj Filadelfiji.

Chuck and Tim had never been outside of the tri-state,

Čak i Tim nikada nisu bili izvan te zone tri države,

let alone to California.

a kamoli u Kaliforniji.

But anyway, the cops down at the precinct

Ali u svakom slučaju, policajci su u stanici

charged Chuck with receiving stolen property.

optužili Čaka za primanje ukradene imovine

And then a juvenile judge, a few days later,

Onda je sudija za maloletnike, par dana kasnije,

charged Tim, age 11,

optužio Tima, jedanaestogodišnjaka,

with accessory to receiving a stolen property

kao saučesnika u primanju ukradene imovine

and then he was placed on three years of probation.

i on je stavljen na tri godine uslovnog oslobođenja.

With this probation sentence hanging over his head,

Sa ovom pretnjom uslovne presude,

Chuck sat his little brother down

Čak je počeo da uči svog mlađeg brata

and began teaching him how to run from the police.

kako da beži od policije.

They would sit side by side on their back porch

Sedeli bi jedan do drugog na njihovoj terasi,

looking out into the shared alleyway

gledajući u usku ulicu

and Chuck would coach Tim how to spot undercover cars,

i Čak bi podučavao Tima kako da provali skrivene policijske automobile,

how to negotiate a late-night police raid, how and where to hide.

kako da pregovara noćna policijska pretresanja, kako i gde da se sakrije.

I want you to imagine for a second

Želim da na sekund zamislite

what Chuck and Tim's lives would be like

kako bi Čakov i Timov život izgledao

if they were living in a neighborhood where kids were going to college,

da su živeli u kraju gde deca idu na fakultet,

not prison.

umesto u zatvor.

A neighborhood like the one I got to grow up in.

Kraj sličan onom u kome sam ja odrasla.

Okay, you might say.

U redu, možda ćete reći.

But Chuck and Tim, kids like them, they're committing crimes!

Ali Čak i Tim, deca kao oni, oni su počinili zločine!

Don't they deserve to be in prison?

Zar ne zaslužuju da budu u zatvoru?

Don't they deserve to be living in fear of arrest?

Zar ne zaslužuju da žive u strahu od hapšenja?

Well, my answer would be no.

Moj odgovor bi bio ne.

They don't.

Ne zaslužuju.

And certainly not for the same things that other young people

I sigurno ne za one iste stvari koje drugi mladi ljudi

with more privilege are doing with impunity.

sa više privilegija rade nekažnjeno.

If Chuck had gone to my high school,

Da je Čak išao u moju školu,

that schoolyard fight would have ended there,

ona školska tuča bi se završila tako,

as a schoolyard fight.

kao školska tuča.

It never would have become an aggravated assault case.

Nikada ne bi postala slučaj teškog telesnog napada.

Not a single kid that I went to college with

Nijedna osoba sa kojom sam studirala

has a criminal record right now.

trenutno nema krivični dosije.

Not a single one.

Nijedna.

But can you imagine how many might have if the police had stopped those kids

Ali možete da zamislite koliko bi ih imalo da ih je policija zaustavljala

and searched their pockets for drugs as they walked to class?

i pretraživala zbog droge na njihovom putu ka predavanjima?

Or had raided their frat parties in the middle of the night?

Ili da je pretresla njihove žurke u sred noći?

Okay, you might say.

U redu, možda ćete reći.

But doesn't this high incarceration rate

Ali zar ova visoka stopa zatvaranja

partly account for our really low crime rate?

ne doprinosi našoj veoma niskoj stopi zločina?

Crime is down. That's a good thing.

Zločin se smanjuje. To je dobro.

Totally, that is a good thing. Crime is down.

Da, to je dobra stvar. Zločin se smanjuje.

It dropped precipitously in the '90s and through the 2000s.

Opao je naglo devedesetih i kroz 2000-te.

But according to a committee of academics

Ali prema odboru akademika

convened by the National Academy of Sciences last year,

sazvanom od strane Nacionalne Akademije Nauka prošle godine,

the relationship between our historically high incarceration rates

odnos između naših istorijski visokih stopa zatvaranja

and our low crime rate is pretty shaky.

i naše niske stope zločina je prilično klimava.

It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down

Izgleda da se naša stopa zločina smanjuje i povećava

irrespective of how many young people we send to prison.

bez obzira na to koliko mladih ljudi pošaljemo u zatvor.

We tend to think about justice in a pretty narrow way:

Težimo da razmišljamo o pravdi na veoma ograničen način:

good and bad, innocent and guilty.

dobro i loše, nedužna i kriva.

Injustice is about being wrongfully convicted.

Nepravda je o tome da si nepravedno osuđena.

So if you're convicted of something you did do,

Tako da, ako si osuđena za nešto što si uradila,

you should be punished for it.

trebalo bi da budeš kažnjena zbog toga.

There are innocent and guilty people,

Postoje nedužni i krivi ljudi,

there are victims and there are perpetrators.

postoje žrtve i izvršioci.

Maybe we could think a little bit more broadly than that.

Možda bismo mogli da razmišljamo šire od toga.

Right now, we're asking kids who live in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods,

Trenutno tražimo od dece koja žive u najneprivilegovanijim krajevima,

who have the least amount of family resources,

koja imaju najmanje porodične prihode,

who are attending the country's worst schools,

koja idu u najgore državne škole,

who are facing the toughest time in the labor market,

koja se susreću sa najviše prepreka na tržištu rada,

who are living in neighborhoods where violence is an everyday problem,

koja žive u krajevima gde je nasilje svakodnevni problem,

we're asking these kids to walk the thinnest possible line --

tražimo od ove dece da šetaju po najtanjoj mogućoj liniji -

to basically never do anything wrong.

u osnovi, da nikada ne urade nešto pogrešno.

Why are we not providing support to young kids facing these challenges?

Zašto ne pružamo podršku mladima koji se suočavaju sa ovim izazovima?

Why are we offering only handcuffs, jail time and this fugitive existence?

Zašto nudimo samo lisice, zatvor, i ovaj identitet begunaca?

Can we imagine something better?

Zar ne možemo da zamislimo nešto bolje?

Can we imagine a criminal justice system that prioritizes recovery,

Zar ne možemo da zamislimo krivično - pravosudni sistem koji stavlja oporavak,

prevention, civic inclusion,

prevenciju, građansko uključenje, kao prioritete

rather than punishment?

umesto kaznu?

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

A criminal justice system that acknowledges

Krivično-pravosudni sistem koji prihvata

the legacy of exclusion that poor people of color in the U.S. have faced

nasleđe isključenosti sa kojim se siromašni ljudi drugih rasa u SAD-u

and that does not promote and perpetuate those exclusions.

suočavaju i koje ne promoviše i podržava tu isključenost.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

And finally, a criminal justice system that believes in black young people,

I konačno, krivično-pravosudni sistem koji veruje u mlade crnce,

rather than treating black young people as the enemy to be rounded up.

umesto da ih tretira kao neprijatelje koje bi trebalo kontrolisati.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

The good news is that we already are.

Dobre vesti su što to već radimo.

A few years ago, Michelle Alexander wrote "The New Jim Crow,"

Pre par godina, Mišel Aleksander je napisala "Novi Džim Krou,"

which got Americans to see incarceration as a civil rights issue

koji je pomogao Amerikancima da vide zatvaranje kao pitanje građanskog prava

of historic proportions in a way they had not seen it before.

istorijskih proporcija, na način na koji to nisu videli pre.

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have come out very strongly

Predsednik Obama i javni tužilac Erik Holder, su se jasno izjasnili

on sentencing reform,

o reformi presuda,

on the need to address racial disparity in incarceration.

o potrebi da se govori o rasnoj nejednakosti u zatvaranju.

We're seeing states throw out Stop and Frisk

Gledamo kako države odbacuju 'Zaustavi i pretresi'

as the civil rights violation that it is.

kao kršenje građanskih prava, što i jeste.

We're seeing cities and states decriminalize possession of marijuana.

Gledamo kako gradovi i države dekriminalizuju posedovanje marihuane.

New York, New Jersey and California

Njujork, Nju Džerzi, i Kalifornija

have been dropping their prison populations, closing prisons,

smanjuju broj ljudi u zatvoru, zatvaraju zatvore,

while also seeing a big drop in crime.

i takođe gledamo veliki pad u stopi zločina.

Texas has gotten into the game now,

Teksas se uključio sada,

also closing prisons, investing in education.

takođe zatvarajući zatvore, investirajući u obrazovanje.

This curious coalition is building from the right and the left,

Ova zanimljiva koalicija se gradi i iz desnice i iz levice,

made up of former prisoners and fiscal conservatives,

napravljena od strane bivših zatvorenika i fiskalnih konzervativaca,

of civil rights activists and libertarians,

od aktivista za građanska prava i libertarijanaca,

of young people taking to the streets to protest police violence

od mladih ljudi koji idu na ulice da protestuju protiv policijskog nasilja

against unarmed black teenagers,

protiv nenaoružanih mladih crnaca,

and older, wealthier people --

i od starijih, bogatijih ljudi -

some of you are here in the audience --

neki od kojih su ovde u publici -

pumping big money into decarceration initiatives

koji ulažu velike pare u inicijative protiv zatvaranja.

In a deeply divided Congress,

U duboko podeljenom Kongresu,

the work of reforming our criminal justice system

posao reformisanja našeg krivično pravosudnog sistema

is just about the only thing that the right and the left

je otprilike jedina stvar o kojoj se i levica i desnica

are coming together on.

zaista slažu.

I did not think I would see this political moment in my lifetime.

Nisam mislila da ću prisustvovati ovom političkom momentu u svom životu.

I think many of the people who have been working tirelessly

Mislim da mnogi ljudi koji su neumorno radili

to write about the causes and consequences

na pisanju o uzrocima i posledicama

of our historically high incarceration rates

naših istorijski visokih stopa zatvaranja

did not think we would see this moment in our lifetime.

nisu mislili da će prisustvovati ovom trenutku.

The question for us now is, how much can we make of it?

Pitanje koje postoji sada za nas je: koliko možemo ovo da iskoristimo?

How much can we change?

Koliko možemo da promenimo?

I want to end with a call to young people,

Želim da završim pozivom mladim ljudima,

the young people attending college

mladima koji pohađaju fakultete

and the young people struggling to stay out of prison

i mladima koji se trude da izbegnu zatvor

or to make it through prison and return home.

ili da prežive zatvor i vrate se kući.

It may seem like these paths to adulthood are worlds apart,

Možda izgleda da su ovi životni putevi odrastanja kompletno različiti,

but the young people participating in these two institutions

ali mladi ljudi koji učestvuju u ovim institucijama

conveying us to adulthood,

koje nas vode kroz odrastanje,

they have one thing in common:

oni imaju jednu zajedničku stvar:

Both can be leaders in the work of reforming our criminal justice system.

obe strane mogu da budu vođe reformi našeg krivično-pravosudnog sistema.

Young people have always been leaders in the fight for equal rights,

Mladi ljudi su oduvek bili vođe u borbi za jednaka prava

the fight for more people to be granted dignity

borbi da se više ljudi tretira dostojanstveno

and a fighting chance at freedom.

i ima realnu šansu za slobodu.

The mission for the generation of young people

Zadatak za generaciju mladih ljudi

coming of age in this, a sea-change moment, potentially,

koji odrastaju u ovome, u moru promena, potencijalno imaju šansu

is to end mass incarceration and build a new criminal justice system,

da okončaju masovno zatvaranje i stvore novi krivično-pravosudni sistem,

emphasis on the word justice.

sa naglaskom na reči pravda.

Thanks.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)