How about a giant golden bird cage out front?

Clearly the headline is hyperbole. History has shown kids can be criminals and a danger to themselves or society. Having a place where child criminals can be separated from adult criminals is a good thing.
The demographic makeup of the prisons and the causes for that disparity is a completely different conversation.

Yeah, like the kid who held a gun to my head. What art would inspire him to be better? Maybe we should just let him have the run of the place and he can enjoy whatever public art he wants while out terrorizing others.

@4-6: Certain members of our local activist community picked a needless fight over our new juvenile-detention facility. The Stranger joined their pointless crusade. They all lost. Since they just. Can’t. Let. Go, the activists who are artists are invoking the almighty Take My Ball And Go Home Rule, and The Stranger is applauding.

(Artists with imagination could try making art which might alleviate some of the misery inherent to setting foot inside a jailhouse, but these artists aren’t like that.)

$500K will keep the artists off the street. At least that's a start.

I'm remembering the juvenile delinquents I spent a year locked up with in the early 1970s. Those were some tough little girls from backgrounds of poverty and abuse, all younger and already tougher than me. Art? They would spit on your art. But the trampoline was fun. How about a trampoline instead of art? Fun and good exercise.

Well, if Banksy wants to place a bomb underneathth thing and blow it up as part of an abstract piece of art, I’m cool with that.

I've long thought that we should direct the 1% for art fund towards art education in the schools. Maybe then, in a generation or so, we'd get better public art (and maybe less inmates at the youth jail)

I thought the old jail was just fine. Can I get a tax refund if no f’artist takes the money?

I totally agree. Those feral little beasts don’t deserve art.

@16 damn. cold world.

No art for criminals: punishment for criminals no matter their age. And yeah, those little beasts don't care about art

"Artists—who stand to profit thousands of dollars from this call to art—are rightfully upset"- absolutely nowhere is it written that the "artists" have to keep the money. Take it and donate it to whatever.

Despite the usual clickbait title, this article does not do a terrible job of portraying the rock/hard place situation that 4Culture faces.

The article does do a terrible job, however, of not at all acknowledging that the 4Culture created the entire Creative Justice program.

When the county refused to allow money from the CFJC to go to Creative Justice, 4Culture took it upon themselves to ensure the program was funded regardless. A little credit where credit is due here Stranger/Jasmyne!

If / when they've been Brutalized
their whole fucking Lives then
they deserve more, of the same?

Jesus.

Art may be their only way out.

Oh, and check out the brilliant Meridian Arch on 50th and Mderidian in North Seattle. Chuck Greening and Seattle's One Percent for Art created a mastepiece. Which looks like it may be due for a cleaning....