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Music Behind A Locked Door

From: Todd Cross
Length: 07:25

Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth - yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place. Todd Cross, highlights a new program intended to foster new skills and opportunity. Read the full description.

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Playing: Music Behind A Locked Door
From: Todd Cross

Default-piece-image-1 Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth - yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place. Todd Cross, highlights a new program intended to foster new skills and opportunity.

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Broadcast History

Aired on WAER FM Syracuse twice in the winter of 2010

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Todd Cross
everydayy@yahoo.com
917 776 5620
www.toddcrossphoto.com

Anchor Intro: Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth….yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place. Todd Cross, highlights a new program intended to foster new skills and opportunity.

"Aaron" -- You're brought in here, you're searched, and you're put into a unit. And you don't know who these people are, what you are supposed to be doing, so..you almost want to cry.

Voiceover -- 14 year old, "Aaron", as we’ll call him, is a resident at Hillbrook Detention Center.

All these different things that are going through your mind, through your head, through your body. Just … very, very depressing

Voiceover - Here, the youth seem all grown up in many ways. They have found trouble or trouble has found them….and the journey into the correctiv...
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INTRO:

Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth….yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place. WAER reporter, Todd Cross, highlights a new program intended to foster new skills and opportunity.

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