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...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...
Murphy is quick to draw a causal link between such community programs as half-way houses and the decrease in juvenile crime. He especially credits the National Youth Program Using Mini-Bikes (NYPUM) as a central factor in contributing to the youthful crime drop in Cambridge. "NYPUM's probably the most significant factor in keeping kids busy," Murphy says...
...addition to NYPUM, there are other community-based programs in Cambridge credited with helping to lower the juvenile crime rate. One such program is Hastings House, a half-way house in Cambridgeport under the auspices of the national Dare House Program...
...Half-way through last week's four-hour debate, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci proposed that there be a two-year halt within the city on such experiments...
...half-way mark, Harvard had again managed to pull even with Coast Guard. With 500 to go, the Crimson had a half-length lead. Tired of playing leap frog, the heavies rowed cautious and efficaciously toward the finish...