Women’s Center Works to Lower Recidivism Rates With ‘Immersion in Sisterhood’ [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 7/10/1512:00 PM

Since the day she ran away from her mother’s home at 14, Danielle Lynette Robinson was in and out of Hillcrest Juvenile Hall in San Mateo, Calif. for the next four years.

“It was like my first real home actually — somewhere I could be safe and well taken care of,” Robinson said.

With her cousin serving as the director of her juvenile hall and her brother staying in the boys’ camp, Robinson said she felt comfortable doing time — at least, much more comfortable than she did while living with her mother or while living in foster care.

“Me and my mom wasn’t getting along too well,” Robinson said. “My dad spoiled me so I would run away to him when he and my mom split up.”

Then, a year after her first juvenile hall sentence, Robinson’s dad passed away.

[For more of this story, written by Sarah Zahedi, go to http://jjie.org/womens-center-...n-sisterhood/114255/]

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