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Reducing Out of Home Placements in Alameda County: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons
Over the past 10-15 years, the youth justice system has seen a national decline in the total number of youth who are in post-adjudication ranches, camps, out-of-home placements, and probation. This follows two decades of steep increases in juvenile incarceration, a direct result of “get-tough-on-crime” policies that dominated our justice systems in the 1980s and 1990s.… Continue Reading Reducing Out of Home Placements in Alameda County: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons
