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Opinion: The cost of locking up California's juveniles
6/8/10 San Jose Mercury News—"It costs approximately $200,000 per year to lock up a young person in DJJ. So what has the taxpayers' $2 million dollar investment in Maria's son brought him, his family or his community? When his mom sees his resignation, his broken spirit and the scars on his body from rubber bullets, she knows that the state has failed him. He's certainly not the only one. Despite costing more than $436 million annually to warehouse only 1,300 youth, DJJ fails 72 percent of the time — meaning that 72 percent of the young people are rearrested soon after release."- Available online
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- Sumayyah Waheed
- Date
- 6/08/10
- State
- California
- Source
- San Jose Mercury News
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