So, that's why I think that card game is extremely significant, for me, because I feel like I got to know [a youth resident] like as a person, but as a kid‐ because they think they're adults‐ they want to be gangster hard, whatever, but they're essentially still kids‐ because, like if he was such an adult he wouldn't care that someone stole his‐ his chips, [laughter] you know, like someone wouldn't care like “they took my bag of chips” For Ms.
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Freedom dreaming in carceral spaces: Youth care workers' imagined alternatives to anti-Black racism in residential facilities.
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