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Gainesvilles Cheek key member of re-entry team
Department of Juvenile Justice aims to meet new state reform law
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Gainesville native André Cheek is one of five named to the Department of Juvenile Justice’s Re-entry Services Unit, in part to better meet requirements of the state’s new juvenile justice reform law. The goal is to increase success rates for former juvenile offenders who are in the process of returning to their communities after release. “We are in the process of the development of a campaign, where we are going to educate the communities and those internally as well, about what re-entry is,” Cheek said. “(About) the benefits, and what direction the Department of Juvenile Justice is going as far as that’s concerned.”