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Boston MA: A $26m try to tame city's crime hot spots New program's workers may have rough pasts

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A $26m try to tame city's crime hot spots New program's workers may have rough pasts By Maria Cramer, Boston Globe Staff | December 4, 2008 The Boston Foundation and city officials are preparing to flood a 1.5-square-mile section of the city with massive crime-fighting resources over the next six years, pinpointing about 2,000 young criminals who they believe drive more than three-quarters of the city's violence. The $26 million effort, which will be formally announced later this month, will dispatch 25 new street workers - or "violence interrupters" - into five neighborhoods along or near Blue Hill Avenue, to make contact with gang members and try to defuse conflicts. Unlike street workers hired by the city, these interrupters will not be disqualified if they have a criminal past...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).