PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Latest on the Philadelphia District Attorney revamping the city’s juvenile justice system(all times local):
3:30 p.m.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is revamping city policies to try to limit the number of children arrested and held in custody.
Krasner, a longtime civil rights lawyer, joins a wave of progressive prosecutors trying to address the “school-to-prison” pipeline that emerged in the 1990s.
He says that punitive approach did far more harm than good.
Philadelphia now holds about 500 juveniles each day in detention centers across the state and beyond. They can cost $200,000 a year or more.
Top deputy Bob Listenbee says the practice of holding children in dangerous prisons “traumatized a generation of young people.”
Nationally, there were about 2 million juvenile arrests per year in the 1990s. Today, there are about half that number.
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner will announce Wednesday his plans to keep more juveniles out of the court system and keep more who are charged out of custody.
Krasner, a longtime civil rights lawyer, joins a wave of progressive prosecutors trying to address the “school-to-prison” pipeline that emerged in the 1990s.
He says that punitive approach did far more harm than good.
Philadelphia now holds about 500 juveniles each day in detention centers across the state and beyond. They can cost $200,000 a year or more.
Top deputy Bob Listenbee says the practice of holding children in dangerous prisons “traumatized a generation of young people.”
Nationally, there were about 2 million juvenile arrests per year in the 1990s. Today, there are about half that number.
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