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By Trey Bundy, Bay Citizen

Boys and girls confined in San Francisco’s juvenile hall might rather be elsewhere, but most aren’t in a hurry to go outside.

That is according to an anonymous survey of detainees at the city’s Juvenile Justice Center, where almost two-thirds of the young offenders said they don’t like outdoor recreation.

Of the survey’s 53 respondents, only 10 said they participated in outdoor exercise every day. When they did participate, nearly a third reported spending less than an hour outside.

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Michele Anderson is an East Coast transplant (Yale, BA, English) who has lived in the Bay Area since, roughly, Gov. Jerry Brown’s first stint as California’s governor. She is a happily retired lawyer (UC Berkeley, JD) and an inveterate news hack (spent many years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she migrated from Food to News). She has been with the San Francisco Public Press as the Partnerships guru since 2011.