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Why Did Darryl Die?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

August 28, 2008 New York Times Editorial Why Did Darryl Die? Two years after a child died there, the Justice Department is conducting a much-needed investigation of New York?s Tryon Boys Residential Center, a juvenile facility in upstate Fulton County. The investigation could take a year or more to complete. But it has already shined a klieg light on disastrous juvenile justice policies, not just in New York, but all across the country. All too often, juvenile justice facilities are operated by workers who have not been trained to handle the mentally ill children who make up much of the caseload. Facilities also overuse dangerous restraint and disciplinary practices in which children are handcuffed, hog tied, bound to chairs or wrestled to the floor and held down...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).