Juvenile Delinquency

Course helps young offenders make better choices 

FORT EDWARD -- Several of the young men and women seated around the tables looked away when the picture flashed on the big screen in front of them. The man's torso was virtually cut in half down the middle, the victim of a knifing at a local state prison. Miraculously, he survived.
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KID TOOK GUN TO SCHOOL: COPS 
A 12-year-old Long Island boy was arrested yesterday for bringing his father's semiautomatic handgun to his school, police said. The student at Oregon Middle School took the gun and a fully loaded magazine from his father's lock box - without...
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Miguel: Teen on drugs and in trouble turns it around 
One of Miguel's earliest memories is of a midnight errand down a back alley with Mom to "score cocaine." He doesn't recall being scared, only stray images. His mom's shoes. A fold of paper. The care she took tucking it in her pocket. He was about 5 years old. Fear and anger came later, as Miguel grew to resent his caretaker role and his mother's mood swings. "I was always there with her.
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