“Brody Ford, a 2020 University of Illinois Chicago graduate in political science and communication, and Nicole Sroka, a 2021 UIC graduate in criminology, law and justice and communication, were among a team of 35 student-journalists from Arizona State University’s Carnegie-Knight News21 program to win the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

The award-winning series, “Kids Imprisoned,” is a stunning, multimedia investigation on the harrowing state of the juvenile justice system in the U.S.”

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