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LA: State takes steps to close Jetson prison for youth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State takes steps to close Jetson * By SANDY DAVIS * Published: Nov 15, 2008 - Page: 1B The state is on its way to closing Jetson Center for Youth and making steps toward reforming the state?s juvenile justice system, Mary Livers, head of the state?s Office of Juvenile Justice, told a state commission Friday. ?We are in the process of shrinking Jetson,? Livers said. ?We feel good about what?s happening there.? Livers made the remarks at a hearing of the Juvenile Justice Implementation Commission at the State Capitol. The commission was created in 2003 to help reform the state?s juvenile justice system. Jetson is one of three juvenile prisons ? also known as secure care facilities ? operated by the state?s Office of Juvenile Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).