At Chester High, peers do each other justice

Stoneleigh Fellow Gregg Volz is featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“If we have robust youth courts in schools, we will greatly reduce that school-to-prison pipeline,” said Gregg Volz, the director of the Youth Court Support Center at EducationWorks, a Philadelphia nonprofit that provides programs for poorer communities.

Nationally, about two-thirds of the courts tie into the local juvenile justice system, he said.

Volz has trained 40 groups to conduct youth courts in Philadelphia, Camden, Norristown, Chester, and Wilmington.

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