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Drawing on her 46-year career in nursing leadership, including Ontario's youth justice system, Norma Fay Nicholson offers a powerful and deeply personal account of how Black and minority youth are criminalized instead of supported. Uncaged exposes the systemic failures that turn vulnerability into incarceration and challenges the belief that punishment leads to change. Through lived experience, Nicholson reveals how racism, mental illness, and inequality collide to trap young people in cycles of trauma. She calls for a shift from confinement to compassion through education, prevention, and family-centred community care. Uncaged is both an unflinching critique and a hopeful blueprint for reform. Will we keep caging our youth, or give them a real chance to heal and thrive?

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