Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

RI and PA: RI sends troubled teenage boys to "facility" 300 miles away

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

(Teenagers) Offenders referred to Pa. school Sunday, March 21, 2010 By Lynn Arditi Providence Journal Staff Writer Deep in rural Pennsylvania, some 300 miles from Providence, The Glen Mills Schools appears to offer much to troubled teenaged boys. The school?s glossy brochure depicts a lush, green campus with neat athletic fields, a football stadium and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Vocational programs range from auto body repair and landscaping to dentistry and golf course management. Glen Mills has so impressed Chief Family Court Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. that he recently referred a dozen delinquent boys there. But state child welfare officials say no matter how good the school may be, troubled teens generally do better when they stay close to their families and communities...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).