Illinois allows kids as young as 10 to be put in detention. A bill before ...

OLIVIA OLANDER Chicago Tribune SPRINGFIELD — In more than two decades as a juvenile probation officer in downstate Clinton County, Carla Stalnaker said barely a handful of children younger than 12 have found themselves in her office. And only a small number of those were put in a detention center. But the juvenile justice veteran thinks it’s time to phase out that option. “The old scared-straight thing … that doesn’t work,” Stalnaker said. “They want he