“It's hard to really get a sense about the offenses just by looking at a line on paper,” said Jeffrey Shook, a Pitt social work professor. Kids can “wind up in detention … [for] a whole range of different behaviors.” Shook, the Pitt professor, worries the expenditure could incentivize officials to keep the facility at capacity, creating a “holding tank” to “deal with a whole bunch of different behavior and struggles of young people.” Read more on WESA.fm