Crime & Punishment  When Schools Become Danger Zones  Posters
serve as a memorial to 16-year-old Derrion Albert, who was
beaten to death outside Fenger Hi  Posters serve as a memorial
to 16-year-old Derrion Albert, who was beaten to death outside
Fenger High School in Chicago on Sept. 24, 2009.  Stan
Barouh/Woolly Mammoth  Three weeks ago today, on September 24,
Derrion Albert, a high school honor student in Chicago, was
beaten to death on his way home from school. He got caught in a
brawl that, by all accounts, had nothing to do with him — a
continuation of a conflict that started earlier that day when a
shot was fired outside of a neighborhood high school. Albert
lived in that neighborhood, but attended another school. He had
to pass by on his way home.  Was there another route he could
have taken? Another bus? A different subway? I have no idea. But
I do know he shouldn't have had to. Didn't he have the right to
go the fastest way home without fear of losing his life?  He
isn't the only one.  ON Tuesday, f