Human rights violations in our own backyard
The state Division of Juvenile Justice is notorious for guard beatings, preventable suicides, filthy conditions and nonexistent programming. Young people held in its warehouse-like prisons regularly suffer violence, abuse and neglect. The systems costs more than $436 million a year - equaling an outrageous $241,400 per youth. Even more outrageous is the division's 72 percent recidivism rate - among the worst in the nation. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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