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Between 80 and 85 per cent of Massachusetts' juvenile offenders are dealt with on a community level. This is in contrast to the nation-wide average of 17 per cent. And, Calhoun is quick to add, there are six states that rely completely on the use of institutionalization--training schools--with no community facilities whatsoever...
...normative mode for treating kids is to lock them up--institutionalize them in some Oliver Twist-esque barn," Calhoun says, referring to the old training schools. He said that Massachusetts leads the country in the use of the more humane, community-based facilities like half-way houses...
...wild movement," Calhoun said. "A flurry of new programs were launched, mostly on zeal and peanut butter. Now things are beginning to settle down once again. We've come to realize that for 'x' number of kids, we do need secured facilities." "But the pendulum isn't going to whip all the way back to training school days," Calhoun adds quickly...
...What Calhoun suggests is the need for some 50 new residential slots in a secured facility for juvenile offenders. Now Massachusetts has about 50 such slots, so that this new addition would bring the total to 100. "The truth is," Alan Raymond, Governor Dukakis' press secretary, says, "that there are not enough secured slots for kids...
...precocious, negative 14-year-old--a big, tough kid," Calhoun recalled. "He locked two nine-year-olds in a refrigerator and killed them, then knifed another kid. He wasn't schizophrenic--just a malicious character with violent tendencies." Calhoun said the boy was now serving a sentence at Concord. "In a couple of quirky cases," Calhoun said, "the kid's definition of manhood is Walpole...