Citizens of the Year aided juveniles in Luzerne County
Jan 3, 2010, Editorial: Seeking justice, Philadelphia Inquirer
It began with a distraught mother's phone call to the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia. Laurene Transue reported that her 15-year-old daughter, Hillary, had been sentenced to a juvenile-detention facility. The girl's offense was minor - poking fun at her school's vice principal on a MySpace page.
The teen had never been in trouble before. For her "crime," however, a juvenile court judge in Luzerne County sent her away for 90 days to a wilderness camp with other youthful offenders. She…
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