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To read the full editorial, visit: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-27/racism-criminal-justice-superpredators

For further reading on those whose lives were changed by the superpredator myth, read the Marshall Project's

• “I Wasn’t a Superpredator. I Was a Kid Who Made a Terrible Decision.” By Derrick Hardaway, a partner of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he committed at 14 years of age who was released in 2016
• “The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth.” - By Carroll Bogert, President of The Marshall Project, and LynNell Hancock, Professor Emerita at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
  

And we look forward to  The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth's look at the effect of the superpredator myth on communities and youth with the launch of their campaign "No Child Is Born Bad" in January 2021.