Dallas County’s juvenile detention and treatment programs are seeing dramatic shifts in the youth they serve, but staff say the mission remains the same: to protect, educate and redirect young people toward a better future.

Director Marcus Hannah, who has worked with the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center since 1993, says the most significant change over the decades is the severity of offenses that are increasingly gun-related. Todd and Cindy talk about that in this segment of the Black Belt Newscast.

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