Utah transforms a juvenile detention center into a place where kids can get help

Farmington • For a long time, the only way a struggling teenager could get connected to state resources was by getting in trouble with the law. It took nothing short of a Utah judge’s order to get help.“It was a bizarre process,” said Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns.It meant that teenagers who skipped school was mixed in a detention center with kids who were violent and accused of much more serious crimes. It put many kids on a trajectory where they progressed deeper into th