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NY Times Editorial: Juvenile Injustice

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"....the Legislature will finally have to put the needs of the state?s children ahead of the politically powerful unions and upstate lawmakers who want to preserve jobs ? and the disastrous status quo ? at all costs." Editorial: Juvenile Injustice Published: January 5, 2010 NY Times Gladys Carrión, New York?s reform-minded commissioner of the Office of Children and Family Services, has been calling on the state to close many of its remote, prison-style juvenile facilities and shift resources and children to therapeutic programs located in their communities. Her efforts have met fierce and predictably self-interested resistance from the unions representing workers in juvenile prisons and their allies in Albany. A recent series of damning reports have underscored the flaws in New York?s juvenile justice system and the urgent need to shut down these facilities...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).