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A Home Remedy: Alternative Sentencing Program for Youth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 20, 2008 A Home Remedy for Juvenile Offenders By LESLIE KAUFMAN NY Times When Jacob Rivera, 15, was resentenced in May on an assault conviction, he felt he had received a ?blessing.? Only months earlier he had been sentenced to a year in state custody, and he had already spent weeks bouncing between a juvenile detention center in the Bronx and a residential treatment campus upstate. Two of his older siblings had spent time in those facilities and, he said, had ?come out a mess.? He could see his future. But the court gave him a second chance because his case had not been properly reviewed for inclusion in a new alternative sentencing program, which the city started in February 2007. The program, called the Juvenile Justice Initiative, sends medium-risk offenders back to their families and provides intensive therapy...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).