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Unhappy with juvenile detention

The story “Detention replaces lunch with dad,” is unbelievable! It sounds to me that the children need some kind of counseling (the parents. too) not put in juvenile detention. What is this telling the children? I don’t have an answer, but that needs to be changed.

Patty Hutchins

Bellingham

This story was originally published July 31, 2015 at 5:01 PM with the headline "Unhappy with juvenile detention."

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