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Article: Francis Poitrast; transformed Boston's Juvenile Court system
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2007
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Francis G. Poitrast had been Boston's Juvenile Court judge for
three years when he went on a radio program to explain why the work
he and his colleagues performed often went unrecognized and why it
drew little financial support.
"I don't think society cares about juvenile delinquency," he
said, according to the Boston Record American, which carried an
account of the December 1967 radio forum. "It's not meanness.
Delinquency is like a disease. Unless it strikes home you don't
think about it or you're not interested in it.
"The attitude of the public is not to spend tremendous amounts of
money on juvenile programs."
Over the next three decades, colleagues say, Judge Poitrast
changed ...
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