Supervisors Urge Longer Classes in Juvenile Camps
The Board of Supervisors has called for increasing education for the thousands of juveniles incarcerated in its probation camps.
Currently, youths sent to the camps by courts sit through from three to four hours of scholastic instruction a day. A proposal by Supervisor Don Knabe, which passed unanimously Tuesday, ordered county staff to study how to expand that time to at least five hours per day, the state requirement for youths outside the delinquency system.
“We must, I believe, continue to search for solutions to turn delinquent youth into responsible members of our society,” Knabe said in a statement.
The board motion calls for a report on expanding classes within 120 days.
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