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A death at William George Agency: " New York's juvie justice system is a crying shame: Keep troubled youngsters downstate for care" by Errol Louis

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New York's juvie justice system is a crying shame: Keep troubled youngsters downstate for care By Errol Louis, NY Daily News Thursday, October 21st 2010 We don't yet know exactly how 20-year-old Alexis Cirino-Rodriguez died on Oct. 13 inside the walls of the William George Agency, a facility for troubled youth about 12 miles from Ithaca. Sketchy press reports indicate that the fatality involved what state troopers called "a physical incident" requiring "intervention by staff" at William George, a center licensed and regulated by the State of New York to care for foster kids, young people on probation and others referred by local governments, school districts, departments of probation and the state Office of Children and Family Services. The death of Cirino-Rodriguez has ignited a firestorm of outrage among prison reform advocates - including senior officials in the Bloomberg administration - who are almost literally screaming for transformation of a notorious state system that remains impossibly expensive, wasteful and ineffective...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 05, 2010 (boomark / email).