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CLEVELAND — Straighten up at home or find yourself in secure detention — two dozen teens accused in Cleveland car thefts have been given that choice as part of a pilot program through the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Courts.
For kids who haven’t committed carjackings or other violent crimes, there’s a program designed to keep them on track to finish out their court cases. "I know car theft is very serious obviously, it can result in horrible outcomes. These are for youth that do not have a long juvenile justice involvement, and the purpose of utilizing this is to help make sure we have room for the kids that their behavior involves guns,” Gibbons said.
Twenty-four children have been placed in the program, according to the courts. Thirteen completed it successfully, six are still in it, and three violated the terms by tampering with their monitors."We're going to do the best that we can to assess each individual case of who's appropriate to place on an ankle monitor,” Gibbons said.
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