Report: Local Youth Programs Need More Funds, Oversight
Local juvenile probation departments are doing a better job and spending less money than state lockups when it comes to treating and rehabilitating troubled youths, according to a report released Wednesday by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition. But the report’s authors say that counties need more money and more oversight from the state to ensure the progress continues.
“These county programs are doing a lot of really innovative things,” said Benet Magnuson, policy attorney at the criminal justice coalition. “They are doing it on shoestring budgets, and they are really finding ways to connect kids to community resources.”
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David Spratt
Perhaps action should be taken to recover some of these funds from the parents of these juvenile criminals. In quite a few cases lack of parenting has produced this criminal spawn , and they should shoulder costs of the burden they have placed on society.