How does incarceration impact the development of the children who are held in detention facilities? What are the alternatives to arresting and holding kids in jail? How does the current approach impact children’s ability to succeed following court involvement, especially for those who are incarcerated due to non-violent offenses? And how do we as youth defenders advocate for change? To answer these questions Host Kristen Anderson interviews Mark Soler, Executive Director of the Center for Children’s Law and Policy in Los Angeles, about the psychological impacts of detention on youth and his work over the years to reform the juvenile justice system by ending solitary confinement of children and limiting their traumatizing experiences.