Barry Krisberg Lends Cautious Support to Youth PROMISE Act

Youth Today, December 15, 2010 by John Kelly
http://w.youthtoday.org/view_article.cfm?article_id=4504

“I have serious problems with the compromise with exposing youth to prosecution,” he said, but “I believe those provisions will fall apart because they’re unworkable” in the actual practice of prosecuting crimes…. Meanwhile, he said, most states are facing budget shortfalls and tough choices about cuts to youth services. “If there’s a way to get some federal funding to communities to do good things, I’m for it.”