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August 5, 2009
For At-Risk Teens, Creative Solutions Offers A Second Chance Through Performing Arts
The kids are not allowed to wear red or blue when they show up to the SMU campus to participate in a summer camp -- those are gang colors. And they're not allowed to smoke during breaks or anywhere on the premises. The environment should allow even the most hardened among them to feel like kids a ... More >>
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July 31, 2003
Higher Learning
At-risk teens learn there are No Boundaries
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April 4, 2002
Finishing School
Sent to TYC when she was 13, Brittany Pollard grew into a young woman and model prisoner in a state prison, but will the lessons she learned there last when she's back in the free world?
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September 27, 2001
A Different Direction
One Dallas County program tries an alternative to lockups, with uncertain results
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September 27, 2001
Unhappy Campers
Critics of a private prison firm that ran two juvenile boot camps in Dallas wonder where the love is at these "tough love academies"
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September 13, 2001
The Superpredator
Think it's brutal to send a 14-year-old boy to prison for decades? Meet Billy Ray Dennis, and think again.
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September 13, 2001
Make 'em Pay
Spurred by a horrifying wave of teen violence in the '90s, Texas today spends more money than ever to lock up young criminals. Are we getting our money's worth?
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February 22, 2001
More, Please
Quick, someone buy the county's juvenile authorities a copy of Oliver Twist

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