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This report details a variety of special techniques, tactics, and strategies that can help rural areas accomplish detention reform effectively. The report highlights the importance in focusing on rural detention reform; five principles to guide detention reform in rural areas; unique characteristics of rural communities and rural youth; the particular issues that may make rural detention reform more difficult; profiles of two promising rural detention reform efforts in Illinois and Oregon; lessons learned from implementing detention reform effectively in rural areas and ways in which rural counties can boost their detention reform efforts; and a summary of key lessons, paying special attention to the critical role of leadership in detention reform efforts in rural regions.

 

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