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MO: System Treats Juvenile Offenders With Lighter Hand

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Missouri System Treats Juvenile Offenders With Lighter Hand By SOLOMON MOORE Published: March 26, 2009 NY Times ST. LOUIS, Mo. ? VonErrick celebrated his 14th birthday last year by committing a daylight carjacking, beating the driver to the ground. With a long record of truancy, assault, and breaking and entering, he was sent to a state group home ? the same home that his two older brothers passed through after their own scrapes with the law. Both of those brothers are out now. Tory, 16, has A grades and plans to attend college. Terry, 20, has a job and has had a clean record for four years. VonErrick was recently released and immediately started high school. The brothers say they benefited from confinement in the Missouri juvenile system, which emphasizes rehabilitation in small groups, constant therapeutic interventions and minimal force...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 28, 2009 (boomark / email).