From BBC News:
On a Kunming basketball court where a group of young police officers was taking on a team made up of teenage boys, all of them young offenders.
The match was part of a revolutionary new programme in Kunming. Instead of young offenders being sent to jail, many are being allowed to stay with their families and carry on going to school while their progress is monitored.
Yang Jian is supervising Le-le and other youngsters. He says the new approach could save them from a life of crime. [Full Text]
See also AsiaNews’ “One criminal suspect in five is a juvenile” and AP’s “Growing inequality fueling juvenile crime in China”
