Nearly 13,000 Kids Involved in Gangs Statewide

Let me continue on in my rant about not paying for education and paying for incarceration. The last few posts have been pointed to show that we know that working with kids makes a difference. Mentoring programs, after school programs and all of the things that have been cut out of our budget over the last few years to fund the prison budget brings a frightening chill even colder than the 10 degrees that it is outside right now. Being one of the leading states in putting kids in jail is not a distinction that I am particularly proud of. We can do better.

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