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NY: Youth prison to stay open study to take 3 years

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Legislation approved Wednesday directs that a study compare the effectiveness of residential vs. community-based treatment for juveniles ? the latter, a new approach recommended in former Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer?s executive order carrying out a plan to close Great Valley and several other juvenile treatment facilities in 2009. The study will take three years, with an interim report delivered to Albany in 2009. By Kathy Kellogg CATTARAUGUS CORRESPONDENT Updated: 04/10/08 2:45 PM GREAT VALLEY ? The Great Valley Youth Residential Center will not be closed or converted to a limited secure youth detention facility but will continue temporarily as a nonsecure foster facility to house about 25 youths. State Sen. Catharine Young, R-Olean, managed to secure funds in the state budget to study the facility?s future and announced the development Wednesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).