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NY: Juvenile Jails: Official Hopes Prison Crisis May Spur Change

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?I have people on staff that have two, three, four, five cases of abuse or inappropriate restraint, and I can?t get rid of them because of civil service rules", Ms. Carrion said." Official Hopes Prison Crisis May Spur Change By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Published: December 15, 2009 NY Times ALBANY? After a state task force delivered a withering indictment of New York?s juvenile prisons, the head of the agency responsible for the prisons reacted by going on a publicity blitz ? not to challenge the findings but to promote them. ?It is a lever, and I think that is important,? Gladys Carrión, the commissioner of the state Office of Children and Family Services, said on Monday in between an interview with a radio station and a meeting with the chairman of the task force...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).