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Take a look at juvenile justice around the country and you’ll find shrinking state budgets have taken a toll on programs aimed at keeping kids out of state custody. A National Guard boot camp in Kentucky – closed. Funds for mentors in North Carolina – gone. In Tennessee, six million dollars in grants for truancy programs and probation officers has been cut by the Department of Children’s Services. The loss of funding will greatly reduce the one-on-one contact that’s increasingly used to keep kids on the straight and narrow outside of state custody. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.
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