High cost, young age: sentencing youth to a life of debt

Kate Weisburd writes for the Huffington Post, Politics blog, April 9, 2014

When young people graduate from the juvenile justice system, they have, by any reasonable measure, repaid their debt to society. But one debt is not easily repaid: the hundreds and even thousands of dollars in fines, fees and restitution that young people and their families owe as a result of their cases.