Jacob Rivera, 15, near his apartment in the Bronx, who was convicted of assault, receives intensive therapy as part of his new sentence.
Jacob and his family are seen regularly by Eddy Lee a counselor for the Juvenile Justice Initiative.
Juvenile Justice Program Sends Medium Risk Teens Home
When Jacob Rivera, 15, was resentenced in May on an assault conviction, he felt he had received a “blessing.”
Only months earlier he had been sentenced to a year in state custody, and he had already spent weeks bouncing between a juvenile detention center in the Bronx and a residential treatment campus upstate. Two of his older siblings had spent time in those facilities and, he said, had “come out a mess.” He could see his future.
But the court gave him a second chance because his case had not been properly reviewed for inclusion in a new alternative sentencing program, which the city started in February 2007. The program, called the Juvenile Justice Initiative, sends medium-risk offenders back to their families and provides intensive therapy.
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