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| | The Pods of Elmore County: A Glimpse Into the Rhetoric Behind the Juvenile Crime Bill |
 | | In Elmore County, Alabama, where the Sheriff testified that the JJDPA rules were preventing him from opening a new series of juvenile "pods," we found that the center is already open for business, and that it is likely that the overwhelming majority of its inhabitants will be non-violent offenders. |
 | | The purpose of this research was to examine the real urgency for respite from what those county officials claim are burdensome federal rules to separate children from adults in jails, especially given the documented impact of mixing those populations on juvenile suicides, rapes and assaults, and reoffense rates. |
 | | Barely a hundred miles away, in Tuscaloosa County, where the area sheriff said he needed the power to lock up large numbers of violent juveniles in adult jails, the violent crime wave is not much larger than in Elmore County. |
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