This story from the Democrat and Chronicle takes an in-depth look at why Monroe County, New York, sends more juvenile delinquents and persons in need of supervision, or PINS, to secure and nonsecure facilities than Buffalo's Erie County and Syracuse's Onondaga County combined. The story continues, "Monroe County is also more likely to keep them for a time in a local detention facility, rather than release them to their families, before their cases come to court. And among the 10 counties that place the most juvenile delinquents in state custody, according to a study of New York's juvenile justice system, Monroe leads in disproportionately placing African-Americans."

The county has been working with staff from Vera's Center on Youth Justice to divert some PINS cases from reaching the courtroom and to develop alternative-to-detention programs for the county.