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Probation officer Brian Lakes talks with a 12-year-old resident at the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center. Counseling services are key to the state's new plan to help rehabilitate young offenders, and Bernalillo County's program has received high marks. But judges and others say services are hard to find for a population that must have them if they are to emerge from jail as more productive members of society.