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NY: Paterson Proposes Juvenile Justice Overhaul

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

City Room - Blogging From the Five Boroughs June 2, 2010, 12:00 pm Paterson Proposes Juvenile Justice Overhaul By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE NY Times Gov. David A. Paterson introduced legislation on Wednesday to begin overhauling New York?s troubled juvenile prison system, in what aides described at a first step toward broader changes long sought by critics of the system. The legislation would prohibit judges from placing youths in state juvenile prisons unless they had been found guilty of a violent felony or a sex crime or a judge had determined that a youth posed a significant risk to themselves or others. Such a move would set the stage to significantly shrink the number of youths in state custody. The bill would also establish an independent office to monitor and, where necessary, investigate problems at the state?s youth prisons, which are run by the state?s Office of Children and Family Services...continue to full post

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