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MAA Students and Staff Featured as Reform Model
See Forever Foundation - June 16, 2010

For the last several months, Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) Criminal Justice Reporter Rob Wildeboer has been offering stories describing how the juvenile justice system in Illinois has been failing in its mission to rehabilitate troubled young people. The series examines the question: Is it even possible to create a prison that helps kids to turn their lives around? Learn more about Wildeboers’ visit to New Beginnings Youth Development Center, a youth prison that operates on principles Illinois has on paper, but not in practice.


Listen to the most recent article in the series here.