Rural Juvenile Justice Could Gain Access To Services

Services for delinquent juveniles in South Dakota have been delivered unevenly. That’s one finding in a recently released report by a workgroup for the Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Initiative. The state’s more urban areas have a wider array of community-based services and therefore are able to better tailor responses to individual juveniles’ needs. The director of juvenile services with the state Department of Corrections tells SDPB’s Victoria Wicks that the workgroup’s recommendations could help to correct those inequities.