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NY: The Juveniles Are Gone, Yet the Jails Remain

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

March 26, 2008 About New York The Juveniles Are Gone, Yet the Jails Remain By JIM DWYER The public pays about $500 a night for each of the 25 beds in the Auburn Residential Center ? a place for teenagers who have gotten into lower-grade trouble with the law, a junior-varsity jail. For the last two weeks, the beds in Auburn have been empty. And state officials expect them to remain empty, permanently. But even with no one under the sheets, each bed will continue to cost as much as $200,000 a year, the officials say. Auburn, near Syracuse, is one of three state facilities for teenagers that are becoming high-priced ghost jails. Brace Residential Center, in Delaware County, with 25 beds, has just two teenagers staying there, watched over by a staff of 24; Great Valley in Cattaraugus County has 10 young people and a staff of 24...continue to full post

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