In Arizona, a radical change in juvenile detention

How a rural town transformed a juvenile facility into a safe space for teens.

When Michael Latham became judge of Apache County, Arizona, in 2014, one of his priorities was to reinvent the county’s underutilized youth detention facility. Amy S. Martin / 70 Million.

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