Touted in the 1980s as a firm response to youth crime, the boot camp model has come under increasingly skeptical scrutiny. Last month, seven guards and a nurse at a Florida boot camp were charged in the January 2006 death of a 14-year-old boy, which prompted Florida to shut down its boot camp system. Erin Hanusa looks at the status of boot camps nationwide, and the latest thinking on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to residential placements for juvenile offenders.
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