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NY: Bloomberg proposes that NY State return juveniles to local communities

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

December 21, 2010 Bloomberg Makes a Proposal on Youth Prisons By RUSS BUETTNER NY Times Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Tuesday that he would ask New York State to turn over control of prisons and services for juvenile offenders to local governments, a move that he said would end the failed and costly practice of shipping troubled young people from New York City to upstate facilities far from their families. Mr. Bloomberg also said that he planned to pursue changes to state law that would allow the rapid closing of large detention centers that are mostly empty but fully staffed. He said that keeping children close to home and in the least restrictive setting that is appropriate would help reduce the ?entirely unacceptable? recidivism rates: 81 percent of boys in the system return within three years of their release...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 22, 2010 (boomark / email).