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Revealing the story behind juvenile-suicide report

By Mark Obbie

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I love it when a small trade publication breaks a good story. Kudos to John Kelly of Youth Today, a newspaper for youth-services professionals, for revealing the backstory behind a newly released report on states' failures to prevent suicides in juvenile lockups. Turns out that the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention -- the arm of the Justice Department that commissioned the report -- sat on it for five years after it was completed, according to accusations made by the report's author to Kelly. (Via ProPublica)

Full post as published by Lawbeat on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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