Higher-education help for juvenile offenders a solid community investment

By Sheila Hagar. Studies covering how many formerly incarcerated teens and young adults go on to postsecondary education are hard to find, said Lee Thornhill, manager of Gateways for Incarcerated Youth, based at Evergreen College in Washington state.
But while actual data is scarce, two decades of Gateways experience shows that more than 98 percent of youths released from detention centers stay in their home communities. But most do not earn a high school diploma or pursue a college education. More...