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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Leaving Hard Time Behind. Foundations lead effort to change juvenile-justice sytems

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy From the issue dated May 15, 2008 Leaving Hard Time Behind Foundations lead effort to change juvenile-justice systems By Caroline Preston When Emily Tow Jackson first started talking to leaders of local youth organizations in the late 1990s about supporting their efforts to improve the Connecticut juvenile-justice system, many were skeptical that a grant maker wanted to get involved. "They thought a foundation wouldn't be interested," says Ms. Jackson, executive director of the Tow Foundation, in Wilton, Conn. "They could get people to fund programs for elementary-school kids, or for SAT-prep classes, but there wasn't much history of foundations funding those really down-and-dirty issues." But over the past eight years, the Tow Foundation and its grantees have won a string of victories in their efforts to persuade the state that sending kids to prison is not necessarily the best way to reduce crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).