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10 CHICAGO TRIBUNE SECTION 1 NATION SUNDAY JULY 8, 2001 ACROSS THE NATION Justice system gets wake-up call on girls SOUTH CAROLINA Myrtle Beach tornado damage put at $8 million MYRTLE BEACH-Gov. Jim tornado touch down in Myrtle Beach," the governor said. The storm knocked out power to about 4,000 residences and businesses, but damaged only 150 of the city's 60,000 hotel rooms, he said. Nine people were treated for minor injuries at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. The tornado popped out car windows, destroyed several trailer homes and overturned about two dozen recreational vehicles at camping areas.

Two tour buses also overturned. The tornado started over the ocean, moved ashore and traveled along Ocean Boulevard, the beach's main street. Hodges on Saturday toured an area of this beach resort damaged when a tornado formed over the ocean as a waterspout and moved ashore Friday, injuring several people, destroying trailer homes and overturning vehicles. Damage was estimated at about $8 million, said city public information officer Mark Kruea. Most of the damage was near the Pavilion, an amusement complex along the shore.

Hodges said his emergency management team would evaluate whether the area qualifies for federal disaster status. "It's very unusual to have a Rise in caseload spurs new tack By Carla Rivera Los Angeles Times Growing up in her neighborhood in Compton, south of Los Angeles, Dominique became a gangbanger almost by default. The rough people she ran with were the only ones she thought she could trust; they could relate to being 14 and on your own because your mother is in jail on a drug charge. Now she is 16, a convicted felon herself, with a 3-month-old son and enough emotional scars to convince her that hanging out with the wrong crowd might not be a worthy life goal. For the past 10 months, her home has been Camp Scott, the all-girl detention center run by the Los Angeles County Probation Department in Saugus, north of Los Angeles.

Girls like Dominique are filling up probation camps and juvenile halls at an alarmingpace, so much so that Los Angeles officials have turned a formerly all-boys camp into a coed one to absorb the overflow. Even as overall rates of juvenile crime are declining, girls are making up a larger proportion of youngsters who are arrested, jailed and on probation. Girls younger than 18 accounted for 27 percent of all U.S. juvenile arrests in 1999, up from 22 percent in 1986. In Los Angeles County, girls accounted for 23 percent of juvenile arrests in 1999, up from 19 percent in 1995.

Nationally, violent crimes committed by girls rose 75 percent from 1980 to 1999. The numbers have jolted law-enforcement officials, who are shifting from their historical focus on male juvenile delinquents to create more intervention and prevention programs aimed at girls. In Washington, the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency is creating a National Girls Institute, which will be the first nationwide repository of information devoted to female delinquency and its prevention. System built around boys A recent report, "Justice by Gender," by the American Bar Association and the nation's largest black legal group, the National Bar Association, concludes that girls are ill-served at every step of the juvenile justice system. "The juvenile justice system historically has been built around boys' problems and the response to girls has been to walk in, paint the walls pink and take out the urinals," said Meda Chesney-Lind, a University of Hawaii researcher who contributed to the bar associations' study.

Faced with that criticism, California last year passed legislation mandating that counties establish programs specifically for girls. Los Angeles County, for exam ple, is planning initiatives for the nearly 500 girls detained in its Probation Department's camp and juvenile hall systems and the 1,300 girls on formal pro-, bation. The programs will tackle some of the same issues that face male delinquents mental health screening, controlling anger, gang intervention but will emphasize the ways girls develop and learn. Camp Scott girls, for instance, will get heavy doses of assertive-ness, self-esteem and self-defense training. Education about pregnancy, eating disorders, parenting, working in groups and problem solving has been shown to be more effective with girls than with boys in reducing behavior problems.

Officials say those efforts will help them sort out critical issues, such as physical and sexual abuse and early motherhood, that can hamper the rehabilitation of girls such as Dominique. Dominique never had been in serious trouble until the day she stood nervously with her crew, staring into the frightened eyes of a stranger they intended to hold up. All they got for their effort, though, was a ride in a police car and a conviction for armed robbery. At the time of the robbery she was a month pregnant by her boyfriend, who had been among the group arrested. The probation camps are considered a midway punishment: more severe than a diversionary program but less harsh than the California Youth Authority, where repeat offenders and those considered more dangerous live in a prison-like The girls at Camp Scott, who range in age from 12 to 18, attend school five days a week in a fenced facility where they march in platoons and have military rankings, much like the boot camps for boys.

Integrating girls' issues But the special issues facing girls are integrated into classes. Girls are asked to talk about abusive home lives and to critique portrayals of women in the media or literature. Community-based groups conduct workshops on topics such as domestic violence and explain to the girls how being incarcerated can affect custody of their children, for example, or even health costs. They are reconnected with their own mothers because of findings that much female delinquency is driven by disruptions in that crucial bond. Dominique, who has 10 weeks remaining on her yearlong term, has mixed emotions about her experience here.

Camp Scott has forced her to realize she took much for granted on the outside. "I realize how much I like my freedom, how much I love my mom. "Now I look back and think, what if it had been my mom or me and my baby," she says of the holdup victim. "I know I messed up." INDIANA miwiiu.iiuui),!! ti 'U 4. fill i 1 i IN I hi'Jf -v 1 1 lilt I 'if1 i n-f fh I -I, II 111 iliilM-" 1 mm mmm, Sm (mm a turn II mm mr wst iraa 'SmmW mm mm rnm mm oil id 1 plill H.

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Gary Condit (D-Calif.) was fully cooperative in a third interview about his relationship with missing former federal intern Chandra Levy, police said Saturday, pronouncing themselves comfortable with his answers. "The congressman was not a suspect before the meeting, the congressman was not a suspect during the meeting and the congressman was not a suspect since the meeting," said Ter-rance Gainer, the second-ranking official in the city's police department. Gainer said the 90-minute meeting took place Friday night in Washington with Con-dit's lawyer present. Police had wanted more clarity from the Democratic lawmaker about the nature of his relationship with Levy, a fellow California resident. Condit has called her a "good friend," but her relatives have described the relationship as intimate.

Gainer did not say anything about the extent of their ties. Police do not know what happened to Levy, who vanished April 30, and their investigation is being treated as a missing persons case, not a crime. tfKyonERa undergoing examination for a possible concussion, said Dick Lilly, a spokesman. "He's going to have a big shiner." Police Chief Gil Kerlikow- QCP3035 $50 mail-in rebate. Schell Free Voice Mail Free Caller I.D.

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