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Published: September 13, 2008
Fewer kids enter juvenile system
By Julie Bisbee
The number of juvenile offenders waiting for a bed within a state treatment facility has steadily decreased in the past year and is at the lowest level in two years, according to the Office of Juvenile Affairs.

At the same time, the number of kids coming into the state's juvenile system has declined.

In the first week of September, the agency had only 26 juveniles waiting for a bed.

"We've made great progre...

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