Fewer young criminals push states to close prisons

[Peacetrain]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100606/ap_on_re_us/us_shuttering_juvenile_prisons


WALES, Wis. – After struggling for years to treat young criminals in razor wire-ringed institutions, states across the country are quietly shuttering dozens of reformatories amid plunging juvenile arrests, softer treatment policies and bleak budgets.

In Ohio, the number of juvenile offenders has plummeted by nearly half over the last two years, pushing the state to close three facilities. California's closures include a youth institution near Los Angeles that operated for nearly 115 years. And one in Texas will finally go quiet after getting its start as a World War II-era training base.

The closures have juvenile advocates cheering.

[Turbineguy]

1. A critical shortage of

young criminals. What ever next?

[Chulanowa]

2. Won't someone think of the Warden's salaries?!?!

[Turbineguy]

3. And let's not forget

the folks that make those extra large key rings!

[impik]

4. It's all Obama's fault.

(Man, i don't even look at the subject line anymore....).