Juvenile services grapple with $14.5M in deficits

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Dysfunction within the Department of Juvenile Services runs deeper than just operational handicaps such as low staffing levels and overcrowding.

The department underbudgeted $3.5 million for employee health insurance in fiscal 2008 and would need at least an additional $17 million to make up long-standing deficits incurred in past years, legislative budget analysts reported Monday.

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