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Juveniles in Maricopa County adult jail don’t receive accredited education
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is not providing accredited educational services to the juveniles held in its adult jail, meaning the credits students earn may not be valid elsewhere.
Dropping juvenile crime rate turns cells to community centers
Apache County’s new community center in St. Johns is industrial chic right down to its name: The LOFT. You’d never know it was once a juvenile detention center.
Juvenile crime plummets — experts at a loss to explain
Arizona’s juvenile detention centers are closing because juvenile offender populations are plummeting, and juvenile offender populations are plummeting because kids these days are committing crimes at a rate far below generations before them.
