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Andrew Cuomo tours the belly of the beast: Tryon youth prison is a textbook case of N.Y. dysfunction

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Andrew Cuomo tours the belly of the beast: Tryon youth prison is a textbook case of N.Y. dysfunction By Bill Hammond NY Daily News November 23rd, 2010 Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo visited an emptied-out juvenile detention center in upstate New York yesterday, and he could not have picked a better place to schlep his bully pulpit. Because the Tryon Residential Facility for boys is a symbol of Albany dysfunction at its worst - a government program that harms the people it's supposed to help, consumes lots of tax dollars, yet keeps going and going because the special interests won't let it die. Opened in the 1960s as a showcase of modern thinking on how to rehabilitate teenaged lawbreakers, Tryon devolved over the decades into an increasingly brutal, prison-like institution...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 23, 2010 (boomark / email).