CQ Researcher, March 5, 2010 by Thomas J. Billitteri
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“We have to recognize that incarceration of youth per se is toxic, so we need to reduce incarceration of young people to the very small, dangerous few,” Krisberg says. “And we’ve got to recognize that if we lock up a lot of kids, it’s going to increase crime. Nothing could be more dramatic than California, where we moved our youth prison population from 10,000 inmates to 1,500 in a decade, and crime went down.”