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No Child Is Born Bad

Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Youth | Published on 5/4/2021
To learn more about the campaign, visit:  https://cfsy.org/no-child-is-born-bad/

To listen to Xavier McElrath-Bey's TEDx talk, No Child is Born Bad, visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51AqpgPCyGI

Xavier is a Senior Advisor with the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth.  At 13, he was given a 25-year sentence for his involvement in a gang-related first-degree murder in Illinois. After serving 13 years, McElrath-Bey was released and earned an MA from Roosevelt University. He worked for more than five years at the Northwestern University Juvenile Project as a clinical researcher/interviewer.