South Carolina Weighs Curbing Jail Time for Truants
A South Carolina legislator hopes to abolish a 1996 state law that permits judges to jail youths who skip school without having valid excuses.
The bill is aimed in part at ensuring that the state receives its full share of grant money provided by the U.S. Department of Justice to improve juvenile-justice programs, said Sen. C. Bradley Hutto, the Democrat who is sponsoring the legislation. The department is currently withholding 25 percent of the money that the state would otherwise be eligible for, under a policy of penalizing states with policies that allow incarceration of youths considered to be of minimal danger.
If the bill becomes law, the state would use the extra federal dollars it would receive to pay for other efforts to combat...
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