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NY Times Editorial: Shut Those Doors

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

December 12, 2010 Shut Those Doors Editorial: NY Times As soon as Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo takes office, he should close a half-dozen more of New York?s ruinously expensive, and half-empty, juvenile detention facilities. He should also press the State Legislature to revoke a wasteful law that keeps facilities scheduled for shutdown open and staffed for a full year, even when there is not a single child in custody. These moves would save millions of dollars, and improve public safety and the lives of troubled children. The number of children in state custody has dropped from more than 2,300 a decade ago to about 650 today. A custody census released this month shows that 10 of the state?s 25 juvenile programs have vacancy rates of 50 percent or greater...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 13, 2010 (boomark / email).