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"Juvenile Injustice"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this editorial in today's New York Times.  Here are excerpts: Gladys Carrión, New York?s reform-minded commissioner of the Office of Children and Family Services, has been calling on the state to close many of its remote, prison-style juvenile facilities and shift resources and children to therapeutic programs located in their communities.  Her efforts have met fierce and predictably self-interested resistance from the unions representing workers in juvenile prisons and their allies in Albany. A recent series of damning reports have underscored the flaws in New York?s juvenile justice system and the urgent need to shut down these facilities. The governor and the State Legislature need to pay attention...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).