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Putting So Many Kids in Jail Is Stupid and Expensive Recommended
6/18/2013 by THE312 (Chicago Magazine's staff blog)
by Whet Moser
A few years ago, Illinois—and Chicago in particular—realized it had a problem on its hands with both juvenile recidivism and juvenile incarceration. Despite the tremendous amounts of…
Throwing children in prison turns out to be a really bad idea Recommended
6/15/2013 by Wonkblog (Washington Post)
by Brad Plummer
The United States still puts more children and teenagers in juvenile detention than any other developed nations in the world, with about 70,000 detained on any given day in 2010. And as it turns out,…
System Failure: Sexual Victimization in Illinois Juvenile Prisons Recommended
6/13/2013 by HuffPost Chicago
by John Maki, Executive Director of the John Howard Association of Illinois
In a recently released national study, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) found that Illinois ranked among the four worst states in the country for rates of reported sexual victimization in…

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