article_snippet: Ross seems to be saying shame isn't the girls -- it's ours as a society for jailing children.
article_snippet: Ross recalled one particularly agonizing interview with a girl who kept telling Ross, "I can't wait to get out of here
article_snippet: Ross was just a kid, but Ross was at that place where you have no hope," Ross said.
article_snippet: Ross, the son of a New York City police officer, had a happy upbringing in a home of modest means.
article_snippet: Ross got into a decent amount of trouble growing up, and Ross said Ross could have easily wound up in the system.
article_snippet: But times were different then, Ross said, and there's been a cultural turn in America toward criminalizing a child's bad behavior.
article_snippet: At intake, Ross photographed a fifth-grader who had been taken to jail because Ross had acted up in class.
article_snippet: "a fifth-grader who had been taken to jail because he had acted up in class came up to my belt buckle," Ross recalled.
article_snippet: I can't, position Ross as the great hope.