Proposed Georgia Budget Shifts Money to Community Programs [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 3/23/1612:00 PM

Leandra Phommavongsay began his speech to the dozen or so teenagers gathered in the back of a Clayton County courtroom by recounting his recent travels.

He had been to California, and before that to Florida and to Texas, all places he hadn’t ever expected to go when he was growing up in small-town Georgia, south of Atlanta.

“I just came from San Francisco. I’m not sure you’ve ever seen San Francisco. But San Francisco is beautiful,” he said.

He had once been like them, Phommavongsay, now 21, told the teens sitting in two rows, a few parents scattered among them. He hung out with the wrong crowd, and got into trouble with the cops for petty, and sometimes not so petty, offenses.

[For more of this story, written by Sarah Barr, go to http://jjie.org/proposed-georg...ity-programs/212973/]

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Robert OlcottMember

I had previously read Judge Teske's 12/8/2015 JJIE article "States Should Mandate School-justice Partnership to End Violence Against Our Children". While Judge Teske's activities in Connecticut were not noted in this article, I believe the Pew Research data, and the long term cost-benefit analysis of this approach, may add some validity to George Bernard Shaw's statement: "To Punish a man, you must Injure him; To Reform a man, you must Improve him; and men are not Improved by Injuries."

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