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NY Times Editorial: NY Legislature Should Close 6 Residential Detention Centers for Juveniles

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New York Times Editorial New Day, Line by Budget Line Published: March 27, 2008 Moving beyond the steamy executive headlines, the New York Statehouse had better show taxpayers something more promising than business as usual as it tackles the deficit-threatened state budget. One quick test, buried in the fine print, would strike a blow for both juvenile justice and budget savings by shutting six of the state's 31 residential detention centers for juveniles. Studies show such centers ? which warehouse largely nonviolent offenders far from their families ? are counterproductive and prohibitively costly. Center alumni have higher rates of recidivism compared with those placed in alternative programs in their home communities. What should be a budgetary no-brainer, however, is already being undermined by the Senate Republicans...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).