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NY: CLOSE-TO-HOME TREATMENT FOR YOUTHS GAINS NOTICE BUT OBSTACLES PUT IN PATH BY PRISON DEPENDENT GROUPS

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

CLOSE-TO-HOME TREATMENT FOR YOUTHS GAINS NOTICE An initiative by the city Department of Probation shows signs of success. By Betsy Morais City Limits WEEKLY #647 July 7, 2008 Dr. Clarice Bailey was sent to New York City by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to find out what it?s like inside the city?s program for juvenile justice reform. The Institute had its eye on the Department of Probation initiative called ?Project Zero,? which seeks alternative kinds of rehabilitation to locking up young offenders in juvenile jail. Bailey spoke with probation officers, staff at the family courts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and counselors who work one-on-one with families in the system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).