Law enforcement and legislators visit an ECEAP program - “All 39 sheriffs are on board with this,” Johnson said. “It’s pretty rare that we can all sit in a room and agree on an issue.” “If you look at the clientele that I deal with, many of them have not graduated high school,” Burke said. “If they have, they were not good students, they don’t get meaningful employment. We prosecute people, we put them in jail, and you say, ‘What a waste, this didn’t have to happen.’ … It’s a frustration for me that I can do my job and it doesn’t really solve the problem. If we invest more up-front, we’ll have better outcomes.”
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 18:23:06 +0000
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