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Provision Aims to Get ‘Smart on Juvenile Justice’
By http://jjie.org
Published: 05/06/2015

WASHINGTON — Tear down more state youth prisons, and spend the money saved on community-based alternatives to incarceration.

Doing so, juvenile justice advocates say, would reduce overall youth crime and recidivism, keep nonviolent offenders from being incarcerated, save states millions of dollars and help the juvenile justice system live up to its mission to rehabilitate, not mostly warehouse, youths.

Against this backdrop, the Obama administration is seeking in its fiscal year 2016 juvenile justice budget a $30 million initiative known as “Smart on Juvenile Justic

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