Making Sure Black Lives Matter in the Criminal Justice System – A Guide for Antiracist Lawyers – Howard League for Penal Reform (July 2021)

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Link to the Howard League for Penal Reform guide around working effectively with Black children for lawyers. 

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The Howard League for Penal Reform have published Making Black Lives Matter in the Criminal Justice System – A guide for antiracist lawyers. The guide aims to help practitioners to educate themselves; ask the right questions; gather the right information and make representations to change outcomes for Black people in the criminal justice system.

The guide may be helpful for youth justice service staff to support the work with Black children and increase awareness around the impact of ethnicity and outcomes for children.