Federal File: Slow going; The Mitchell fund

Some Congressional critics say the Clinton Administration is following the lead of its predecessors in paying only scant attention to reforming the juvenile-justice system.

At a recent hearing on the subject, Rep. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., appeared dumbfounded upon learning that a task force created to coordinate federal juvenile-justice policy has met only once in 20 years, in 1992.

It has not met at all since...

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