By Tom Bettag, Tommy Fasano, Vivian Siu, Al Lopez, Bob Goldsborough, Cathy Barosky, Dan Edblom, Deborah Katz, Duane Poquis, Eric Siegel, Eva Freeman, George Griffin, Gordon Swenson, Hing Ng, Janet Tobias, Jill Krauss, Laura Rabhan Bar-On, Lupe Mejia, Mike Proser, Terri Lichstein, Robe Imbriano, Ted Koppel
Broadcast over five nights, the program was an ambitious effort to examine how “justice” is applied to juvenile law-breakers and to ask serious questions about the effects of new laws which are likely to bring more young people into the juvenile justice system. The program was a balanced discussion of complex issues. More than that, it let viewers see and hear stories through the eyes and words of individual people: the offenders, their parents, victims’ relatives, and the prosecutors, judges, guards and caseworkers who run the juvenile system. It represents the best of what television journalism can be.