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In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days. Y-Press journalist Andy Yang, age 17, visited the maximum-security Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility for males to figure out just how easy it is for teens to obtain guns.
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In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days. Y-Press journalist Andy Yang, age 17, visited the maximum-security Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility for males to figure out just how easy it is for teens to obtain guns.
Broadcast History
WFYI (90.1 FM) Indianapolis, March 6, 2012 during Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Transcript
ANDY YANG: As we entered Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, I got a little nervous. From the outside, the building looked almost like a school, but it was fenced off with barbed wire. Inside, we had to walk through a metal detector and two thick steel doors that locked behind us.
The kids held here have been convicted of very serious crimes, ranging from sexual offenses to robbery and even homicide. The four teens we talked to, who were all there for gun-related crimes, were soft-spoken and polite. Each one explained that he had grown up in a neighborhood where crime was an everyday occurrence. Each had friends who had been shot. To protect their identities, we are using their first names only.
Anthony was at Pendleton for shooting somebody in an altercation. He was tall and looked tough, but stared at the floor during most of the interview. He described the environment that h...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days. Y-Press journalist Andy Yang, age 17, visited the maximum-security Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility for males to figure out just how easy it is for teens to obtain guns.
OUTRO:Y-Press is an Indianapolis-based youth-media organization focused on reporting teen perspectives. To learn more, andlisten to the entire series on teens and guns, visit www.ypress.org.
Additional Credits
Editorial oversight by Andrea Muraskin and Lynn Sygiel, with help from Madelyn Morgan. This report was produced in collaboration with Marianne Holland at WFYI (90.1 FM) Indianapolis.
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Olivia Cueva
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 07:41 PM | Permalink
Review of "Teens and Illegal Guns: Access"
Y-Press’s segment on teens with guns is both informative and long overdue. Of the 4 segments recently posted, Andy Yang’s segment on access to guns is my favorite. In this piece, Yang interviews youth incarcerated at the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana about how easy it is to get ahold of guns. This script is well written, and Yang uses great interview clips and ambient sound. As the reporter and narrator, Yang does a great job of communicating his personal unfamiliarity with correctional facilities and street violence, while not furthering the demonization and marginalization of the young men he interviews. In clearer terms, he sets up the piece so that the listener can hear these stories as the the stories of young men, not criminals. He provides an informative piece that does not demonize, exotify, or other his interviewees. That is a skill.