Multi-tasking to keep teens from behind bars
Youth Justice Awareness Month event draws appreciative crowd
Rev. Jack Crans, a 1968 graduate of CASH and well-known Coatesville advocate, opened the program with a prayer.
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
A program on youth justice Thursday night began with horror stories about teen abuse in the adult system but concluded with a dramatic tale of success: a Coatesville man who served...
Community invited to event on youth justice reform
Awareness program on Oct. 11 will include national and local experts
An estimated 250,000 youth are tried, sentenced or incarcerated as adults annually across the country, according to statistics from the Campaign for Youth Justice.
Hoping to reduce this trend locally, youth advocates are presenting the second annual parent-initiated Youth Justice Awareness Month event on Oct. 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the...