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By Sara Tiano, Joaquin Palomino and Cynthia Dizikes

Money will help, but is a ‘stopgap to a larger issue we need to deal with.’ By Joaquin Palomino, Cynthia Dizikes and Sara Tiano California will spend more than $8 million to find safer homes for children returning from troubled out-of-state residential programs, in response to a Chronicle and Imprint investigation into rampant reports of abuse at the facilities.

California sent thousands of vulnerable children to out-of-state facilities run by a for-profit company. Reports of rampant abuse followed. Now, confronted with a Chronicle and Imprint investigation, the state is bringing every child home.

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