Juvenile detention left hanging from St. Joe budge cuts

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Fox 28, August 20, 2014

By: Alexi Gray, Multimedia Journalist

SOUTH BEND –  A big task is underway right now in St. Joseph County. Department heads forced to cut three percent from their budgets.

They’re getting down to business, making hard choices about where and how to spend your tax dollars. But there’s a human cost to cutting county dollars too.

St. Joseph County sends more young men into juvenile detention than any other county in the state of Indiana. Efforts have been made to lower those numbers. There’s a state initiative to enroll young offenders into programs as an alternative to detention.