He was vicepresidentandartdirectorofGoldenBooksatWesternPublishingfrom 1952-1972, and then vice president andassociatepublisher of the juvenile division of Random House from 1972 to 1990.
Staff and children live together at the facility, which has shown success in keeping teens treated there from committing new crimes, said Renee Hagan, juvenile justice division director for Lighthouse Youth Services.
Model programmes in juvenile-justice reform do exist: the Missouri Division of Youth Services, for example, uses a relatively low-cost, individualised, community-based approach with recidivism rates consistently hovering around 10%, one of the lowest in the country.