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OH: Federal Jugde Approves Plan to Overhaul Prisons for Youth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Overhaul of state's juvenile prisons approved Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:40 PM By ALAYNA DEMARTINI THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The state's overcrowded, understaffed and violent juvenile prisons are about to be overhauled. A federal judge approved a plan yesterday to improve the medical care, mental-health care and education of young felons and to better train prison employees to subdue their charges without violence. The policy has been, ?Hit first, ask questions later,? said Fred Cohen, a consultant who evaluated the prison system last year, exposing a host of serious problems. ?This is not going to go away overnight.? The 89-page proposal resulted from a series of lawsuits child-advocacy lawyers filed against the Ohio juvenile-prison system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).