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Treatment of Youths in New York Prisons Spurs Suit

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Treatment of Youths in New York Prisons Spurs Suit By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Published: December 30, 2009 NY Times ALBANY ? Youths detained in some of New York?s juvenile prisons have suffered bruises, cuts and a host of other injuries from aggressive physical restraining practices that violate their legal and constitutional rights, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday. The class-action suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan on behalf of roughly 500 youths in 10 of the prisons, also accuses the Office of Children and Family Services, the state agency that runs the facilities, of failing to provide adequate mental health services The legal claim follows two withering reports from the United States Department of Justice and a state task force that portrayed the state?s juvenile justice system as so riddled with problems that it needed a complete overhaul...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 31, 2009 (boomark / email).