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The legacy of these approaches didn’t sit well with Radius, and she grew frustrated by her limited options as a judge. If she wanted to divert girls from incarceration, she could choose between boy-centric boot camps or anger-management classes, but neither was designed with girls’ needs in mind. In 2003, she went to her boss, Frances Wong, and made a bold request.
“Let me do a Girls Court,” she asked.
“What’s that?” Wong replied.
“I have no idea,” Radius said, “but we gotta do something different.”