A System Transformed
Beginning around the year 2000, incarceration of juveniles has declined by almost 75%, from a peak population of more than 10o,000, to somewhere less than one-third that number.
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Over the past few decades, America’s juvenile justice system has undergone a startling transformation — from an approach built around punishment and deterrence, to one centered on rehabilitation and prevention.
The evidence: Beginning around the year 2000, incarceration of juveniles has declined by almost 75%, from a peak population of more than 10o,000, to somewhere less than one-third that number.
I guess I played a small part in that transformation through my association with two alternative programs: a nine bed shelter where kids in need could stay up to two weeks, and a 40 bed residential alcohol and drug rehab where the typical length of stay of three to six months, and sometimes longer.
I wasn’t involved in the day-to-day running of the programs, but I learned a lot from observing those who were. Like most Americans, I realized I had been operating under a number of misconceptions about troubled kids, their families, the people who worked with them, and the...
The evidence: Beginning around the year 2000, incarceration of juveniles has declined by almost 75%, from a peak population of more than 10o,000, to somewhere less than one-third that number.
I guess I played a small part in that transformation through my association with two alternative programs: a nine bed shelter where kids in need could stay up to two weeks, and a 40 bed residential alcohol and drug rehab where the typical length of stay of three to six months, and sometimes longer.
I wasn’t involved in the day-to-day running of the programs, but I learned a lot from observing those who were. Like most Americans, I realized I had been operating under a number of misconceptions about troubled kids, their families, the people who worked with them, and the...
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A System Transformed
Beginning around the year 2000, incarceration of juveniles has declined by almost 75%, from a peak population of more than 10o,000, to somewhere less than one-third that number.
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Is This Recovery?
...there are other folks out there like these— pretending to sobriety yet still secretly using, and hoping to avoid the sort of trouble that haunted them in the past.
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A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
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