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Prison for kids doesn’t work, and good alternatives are out there [SacBee.com]

 

Imagine a California without youth prisons because we don’t need them anymore.

Young people would still make mistakes, some of them tragic. But instead of being taken from their families and schools, they would receive community-based counseling, mentoring, job training and opportunities that build on their strengths, enabling them to become productive adults. The limited number of youth at risk of harming others would go to small, secure therapeutic residential treatment centers near their communities.



[For more of this story, written by Robert K. Ross and Patrick McCarthy, go to http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/...rticle149787349.html]

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