COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) --The El Paso County prosecutor is crediting federal stimulus funds for saving the jobs of six people who work with first-time juvenile offenders.

District Attorney Dan May says the $824,438 his office will receive will save the team and allow him to add a seventh person.

The money is part of $16.5 million that Gov. Bill Ritter and the state Department of Public Safety announced Monday will go to support jobs and law enforcement programs.

The program May oversees deals with about 800 juveniles annually by getting them into treatment programs as an alternative to prosecution. May says the program has about an 85 percent success rate in keeping juveniles from re-offending.

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