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By Cory Golden/Enterprise staff writer
When Maggie Navarro joined the Fresno County Juvenile Justice Committee, she saw up close the blueprints for a new $176 million juvenile detention center slated for completion in phases planned out to 2040.
She realized officials were planning to house offenders who had not been born yet, for her children's generation.
'I was like, 'No, no, no,' ' Navarro said. 'It's distressing.'
Navarro said she had come to realize that those planning the facility, by including such things as on-site counseling, medical care and legal help, do mean well. But it hasn't lessened her drive to keep kids in school and out of jail."
