1.   Massachusetts closed its traditional, prison-like juvenile corrections institutions and moved its juvenile offenders into small, community-based group homes.

2.   Perhaps the most controversial aspect of care in the community comes when people like this along with the mentally ill are given the chance to live in group homes.

3.   Also in that section of town is The Harbor, a group home for recovering drug and alcohol users and mental health patients.

4.   And as Hockenberry sat with his uncle in the living room of a group home in Newark, N.Y., Charlie taught him something about freedom.

5.   And more teen-age mothers now attend school and live with their parents or in state-run group homes.

6.   Another branches off into foster care, while a third heads into group homes for adolescents.

7.   Another was cited for housing children in group homes with shattered windows, broken light fixtures and trash strewn about.

8.   Any attempt to understand where they went has to start in group homes, the cornerstone of community-based mental health.

9.   As a solution, the federal government calls for placing residents in group homes across Connecticut.

10.   As a result, Abrams said, no treatment programs or group homes are available for troubled youngsters, and some judges see jail as the only alternative.