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Out jail and into jobs; Maya Angelou Public Charter School offers hope and an education to kids in trouble.(feature)

"Tell the judge I want a program," pleaded Eddie. "Tell him I don't need to be locked up." Eddie was my client, 16 years old, charged with breaking into a house and stealing a TV and VCR. A Formica table separated us in a dingy room in the Oak Hill juvenile detention center, the jail for kids charged with crimes in Washington, D.C. Like every juvenile client I ever represented, Eddie had one pressing concern: He wanted to go home. He promised me he would do everything right: go to school, attend counseling, pass his drug tests. I believed him; I was a young public defender and it was my job to believe him.

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