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"Ohio Youth Prisons"

This post was written by Chuck Kallendorf: "Ohio is leading the way in reducing the number of minors in prison, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer article last weekend.

"After struggling for years to treat young criminals in razor wire-ringed institutions, states across the nation are quietly shuttering dozens of reformatories amid plunging juvenile arrests, softer treatment policies and bleak budgets," the article says, with there being a number of factors pushing states to close facilities.

"During the early 1990s, tough-on-crime legislators turned to the juvenile system. Nearly every state lowered the minimum age for kids to be tried as adults or increased the kind of crimes that land kids in the adult system..."

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Source: Hamilton County Law Library Blog, 11 June 2010. Reproduced with permission.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).