By: Kathryn Fiorita
Richard Ross is an American documentary photographer known for his work called the Juvenile in Justice. He has a lot of reviews, publications and press about this project from PBS, CNN, TIMES and many more. His work is often shown with another photographer of the juvenile justice system, Zora Murff.
This project documented the U.S. juvenile justice system for eight years. Juvenile In Justice is a project to document the placement and treatment of American juveniles housed by law in facilities that treat, confine, punish, assist and, occasionally, harm them.” Juvenile in Justice documented teenages for eight years. On Ross’ website each photo has a small description about what the photo is about or who is in the photo.
His latest project, Girls in Justice, focuses on girls in the juvenile detention and treatment in the U.S. The much-anticipated follow up to his first project, turns our focus to girls in the system, and not a moment too soon.
He did this project to bring awareness to what is happening. He is the voice for these teenage girls. They are getting abuse by the people that should be parenting them. These teenagers do not have anyone to speak for them. All of these girls are sexually abused. These girls are being put into bad placements, may be abusive or not they don’t know until they are living there. Most of these young women go to the detention center for safety to avoid further abuse. There aren’t any facilities for these girls outside of the detention center, to help them after they get out. And most of these detention centers are run by males that have not dealt with children before or are run by ex-military and not prepared. They are not prepared for the needs of children and really not prepared to care for these girls.
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