Fewer California kids are spending time behind bars. A report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds the youth incarceration rate at a nationwide low. That’s also true in Nevada County where the juvenile hall population is down 20 percent from a year ago. Chief Probation Officer Mike Ertola says there are several reasons for that…
Ertola says many of those who are booked into the Carl F. Bryan facility and released do not come back, which frees up other resources…
Statewide, the rate decrease was nearly 50 percent from 1997 to 2010.
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