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Author: Eli Hager

Eli Hager is a staff writer covering juvenile justice, family court, indigent defense, fines and fees and other issues; he also edits the "Life Inside" series of essays by incarcerated writers. He was a Livingston Award finalist for his 2017 investigation of the for-profit prisoner transport industry and is a three-time finalist for the Education Writers Association awards.
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These Parents Had to Bond With Their Babies Over Zoom—or Lose Them Forever

These Parents Had to Bond With Their Babies Over Zoom—or Lose Them Forever

Eli Hager

During the pandemic, video chats replaced in-person visits between parents and their children placed in foster care. The effects could linger for years.

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Coronavirus Makes Juvenile Jails Look Like Adult Prisons

Eli Hager

Youth lockups are supposed to rehabilitate kids, not punish them. The pandemic is making that harder than ever.

“Does anyone believe that rehabilitation can occur in a locked facility during a pandemic? What are we actually doing still holding children in facilities?”

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“I Want to See my Child.” Juvenile Detention Centers Cut Visits Over COVID-19 Fears

“I Want to See my Child.” Juvenile Detention Centers Cut Visits Over COVID-19 Fears

Eli Hager

Families fret about isolated youth behind bars: “There’s just nothing we can do. I get one of those parent intuitions, an intuition that he’s worried and upset. But there is just nothing that we can do.”

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Four Ways the U.S. Foster Care System Is Buckling Under the Weight of a Pandemic

Four Ways the U.S. Foster Care System Is Buckling Under the Weight of a Pandemic

Eli Hager

The foster care system, built on frequent movements of children from one home to another and regular in-person supervision, has been especially wracked with confusion and dread by the coronavirus crisis. New placements, family visits and child-abuse investigations falter across the country.

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