In December, when the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice heard from a group of teenagers who had been adjudicated delinquent by former Luzerne County Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., the first to testify offered a brief assessment of the juvenile delinquency system that could very well find a place in the commission’s final report.
Identified only as A.K., she and a friend had written on five street signs in West Pittston with a felt-tip marker when she was 14. Childish stuff, she said. Nothing bad, no gang slogans.
