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NY: Judge Bars Youth Prisons From Routine Shackling

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Judge Bars Youth Prisons From Routine Shackling By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Published: January 26, 2010 ALBANY ? The agency that runs the state?s juvenile prison system routinely violates the law by shackling youthful offenders when taking them to court even when the youth poses no obvious threat, a state judge ruled on Tuesday. The case was brought on behalf of a teenager identified as John F., who was kept in shackles ? his hands and feet handcuffed, with a belly chain linked to the handcuffs ? for about 15 hours one day while being taken to court. He was 14 and had no record of violent crime, said the lawyers who represented him. The ruling, by Justice Milton A. Tingling Jr. of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, would repeal a policy of the state?s youth correctional system that has been in place since at least 1996...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).