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Location: WHYY Studios, 150 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Juvenile Law Center and Philadelphia public radio station WHYY are hosting an important conversation about the financial penalties placed on children and families—and the growing movement to end them. WHYY's esteemed correspondent Cherri Gregg will moderate a conversation between Jessica Feierman, the author of Debtor's Prison for Kids and Juvenile Law Center's Chief Legal Officer, Dequan Jackson a professional football player who experienced these harmful fees as a child and later advocated for change on the harsh practice of doubly punishing children and families.