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MO: Mother works to keep teens out of adult prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Columbia Missourian Mother works to keep teens out of adult prisons By RUDI KELLER and BRIDGET DICOSMO August 9, 2008 | 10:08 p.m. CDT CAPE GIRARDEAU ? Tracy McClard has signed on with an effort to keep teen offenders out of adult prisons, a crusade that is getting a political test as the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee works on a bill reauthorizing federal juvenile justice programs. McClard is the mother of Jonathan McClard, a Jackson teen who committed suicide while in the first months of a 30-year sentence for shooting another teenager at a Jackson car wash. Jonathan McClard had just turned 17. He was charged as an adult and sent to the Eastern Missouri Reception and Diagnostic Center, the regular intake prison for adult inmates in the eastern areas of the state...continue to full post

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