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"We have some kids in the program that stole 50 cars a week," he says, adding that between 18 and 22 per cent of the kids in the Cambridge program are of this "hardcore" variety; 40 per cent are kids referred by schools' probation officers or families as potentially troublemakers...
One problem with this method of rehabilitation, however, is that "though adult offenders can earn the money to pay, juveniles often can't," Judge Lawrence F. Feloney, senior presiding justice at Cambridge's Third District Court, says. Feloney said in most of his juvenile cases, the youth is assigned to...
"Ideally, the probation officer acts as a kind of counselor to the child," Feloney said. "If, over a trial period, this arrangement doesn't work out, then the probation officer refers the child to another agency--say, a half-way house."
DRAFT EVADERS. About 10,000 individuals were under indictment for draft evasion when the Ford program began. The Justice Department reviewed the cases and dismissed slightly more than half of them (5,500) for legal or other reasons. Of the remaining 4,500 only some 700 were granted clemency after...
Of the 14 students who appeared before that committee, nine received suspensions, two were placed on probation, and three were reprimanded.