Isaiah, 12, who is in the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project, played a game of Connect Four with youth worker Colin Turner in Roxbury.
(Barry Chin/Globe Staff)
Bypassing detention centers
Program aims to keep youths at home, out of trouble
Isaiah, 12, who is in the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project, played a game of Connect Four with youth worker Colin Turner in Roxbury.
(Barry Chin/Globe Staff)
Isaiah is a soft-spoken sixth-grader with poor grades, virtually no relationship with his father, and a police record that includes attempted breaking and entering and assault and battery - the latter on his mother and sister when he was 11 years old. (Full article: 1106 words)
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