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"I was scared," she explains. "I was thinking, 'I hope I don't get caught.'"
"The Timebank has about 400 members," says [Stephanie Rearick]. "Some don't even know about the Youth Court. It's really just one component of the larger thing. But those that do are really excited about it.""Everybody has something to give, and that's what the Timebank recognizes," says Cheri Maples, president of the program's board of directors. Maples has spent 25 years in the criminal justice system, as a Madison police officer, corrections official and assistant attorney general. "It's the great equalizer, because a lawyer's time or a doctor's time is worth no more than someone who works at McDonald's."See the full content of this document
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Getting the Community Involved
Amanda rocks back and forth before a podium in the middle of the room, facing the jury. Picking at the flaking polish on her thumbnail, she stares at her shoes. When she answers one of the jurors' questions, she mumbles into her chest.
"I was scared," she explains. "I was thinking, 'I hope I don't get caught.'"Amanda (a pseudonym) is charged with reta...See the full content of this document
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