States have been scaling back their juvenile prisons and allowing troubled youth to stay in their communities. But without money and oversight, local control could fall far short of real reform.
Steven Yoder
Steven Yoder has written about criminal justice and other domestic policy issues for Salon, Al Jazeera America, The Fiscal Times, and others-online at @syodertweets.
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Prisoner’s Dilemma
Some states are looking to end policies that allow prisoners to accrue child-support debt while in prison and have most of their wages garnished when they get out — policies that drive many ex-prisoners to re-offend.
