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Growing Up Behind Bars

By AAN Staff
april 2, 2002  12:29 pm
Growing Up Behind Bars
Raised in a broken home by a drug-abusing mother, Edwin Debrow Jr. quickly fell into a life of crime. He was finally arrested for killing a San Antonio cab driver during a botched robbery that won him a 27-year prison sentence. Debrow was 12 when he was shipped off to prison; he'll be middle-aged before he ever leaves. In the latest installment of Dallas Observer's series on juvenile justice, Editor Julie Lyons takes a bleak, chilling look at the violence and despair facing violent children convicted under Texas' new get-tough juvenile justice system.
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