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• What happens when kids who enter Orange County’s criminal system are released?
A small percentage of them re-enter the system.
As a follow up to her five-part series, Young & Arrested, 90.7’s Renata Sago wrote a column in the Orlando Sentinel about the perils of juvenile recidivism.
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• Orange County has the highest number of juvenile arrests in Florida, and black boys make up the majority of those arrests for crimes charged as felonies. As part of the final installment of Young & Arrested, 90.7’s Renata Sago discusses what is next for juvenile justice in Orange County and what we can take away from the voices in the series.
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• Orange County has the highest number of juvenile arrests in Florida, and black boys make up the majority of those arrests for crimes charged as felonies. In this fourth installment of Young & Arrested, we look into how the community is changing its approach to how to treat kids who commit crimes.
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• Orange County has the highest number of juvenile arrests in Florida, and black boys make up the majority of those arrests for crimes charged as felonies. In this third installment of Young & Arrested, one kid breaks a school rule that leads him to facing a felony.
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• Orange County has the highest number of juvenile arrests in Florida. Black boys make up the majority of those arrests for crimes charged as felonies. In this second installment of Young & Arrested, 90.7’s Renata Sago takes us out of Pine Hills into a tough part of Apopka. It’s where one kid’s mistakes landed him in residential confinement hours away from home.
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• Orange County has the highest number of juvenile arrests in Florida. Black boys make up the majority of those arrests for crimes charged as felonies. In the first installment of Young & Arrested, 90.7’s Renata Sago takes us to Orlando’s Pine Hills neighborhood, a mixed-income black neighborhood with the state’s highest volume of arrests. It is where one young man landed in prison before he could graduate high school.
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• The problem in the southern Indian River Lagoon is Lake Okeechobee.
An abundance of polluted water from the state’s largest lake is turning the lagoon’s normally aquamarine water brown and murky and endangering oysters, seagrass and other marine life.
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