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Juvenile justice: ‘From nothing to something and then right back to nothing’ • Kentucky Lantern

Juvenile justice: ‘From nothing to something and then right back to nothing’ • Kentucky Lantern  Kentucky Lantern

The mood was celebratory as Kentucky and federal officials crowded into the Capitol Rotunda on a cold January day in 2001 to announce the end of five years of federal oversight of the state’s problem-ridden juvenile justice system.

“We’re never going to slide back to where we were in 1995,” said then-Juvenile Justice Commissioner Ralph Kelly. “We know we’re on the road to victory.”