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NY: City Signals Intent to Put Fewer Teenagers in Jail and Nick Kristof column on "Kids in Crisis (Behind Bars)"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

City Signals Intent to Put Fewer Teenagers in Jail Richard Perry/The New York Times By JULIE BOSMAN Published: January 20, 2010 The Bloomberg administration plans to merge the city?s Department of Juvenile Justice into its child welfare agency, signaling a more therapeutic approach toward delinquency that will send fewer of the city?s troubled teenagers to jail. A juvenile center in the Bronx. The system currently uses 28 complexes throughout the state to house about 900 young people. The integration of the agencies is effective immediately, and was announced by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in his State of the City speech Wednesday afternoon. City officials said that under the new arrangement, youths who commit crimes but are not considered dangerous will have easier access to an expanding assortment of in-home programs managed by the Administration for Children?s Services, the child welfare agency...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 28, 2010 (boomark / email).