Published on 02/05/2001, THE MIAMI HERALD

PROGRAM CUTS ARE BAD POLICY
Jacqueline Charles' article on Gov. Jeb Bush's plan to cut funding for troubled youth programs such as the Dade Marine Institute is right on target. This is just bad public policy. These children haven't performed in school and frankly the schools don't want them back. The governor's alternative is to lock them up. How is this cost effective?

Discovery Channel - Kids in Prison
Discovery Channel
Kids in Prison

Go inside Florida's juvenile detention facilities to hear the advice offenders give to kids heading toward a similar fate. Follow inmates through a typical day in a system that operates on the philosophy, "adult crime, adult time."