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Using Soccer to Help Juvenile Offenders in Santa Cruz County

Felipe Buitrago

Good Times Santa Cruz | November 11, 2009

For the last four years, Gina Castaneda has been a deputy probation officer for Santa Cruz County, working with juvenile offenders who live in the Watsonville area. Her soccer team is made up of a small handful of the 400 youths currently on, or at least in contact with, county probation, some of them from rival gangs.

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Tags: Santa Cruz County, gangs, Soccer, rehabilitation, criminal justice

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Good Times Santa Cruz | Jessica Lussenhop | 11-02-2009 | Crime & Justice

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