What is the main conflict in No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by Edward Humes?

No Matter How Loud I Shout, written by Pulitzer-Prize winner Edward Humes, concerns the state of the juvenile justice system in the United States, specifically in LA County, in the mid-1990s. Humes served as a counselor and writing teacher for a number of juvenile delinquents, seven of whom he tracks throughout one year in the justice system in Los Angeles, Inglewood and Pomona California.