Every night, teenage girls at a city group home in East New York can be found on the street smoking pot, drinking liquor and disappearing into the night with strangers. The city’s child welfare agency is failing to nurture, protect or even supervise kids in its care.
A new youth court is being under-utilized and depriving teenagers of alternative justice.
A reader writes to make a clarification to the Weekly.
Why aren’t more juvenile offenders being sent to youth court?
Politics is behind the get-it-done-quick juvenile justice rehaul being planned in Albany these days.
In creating a new computer system, the state proposes to upload sensitive family case histories. A nun in Sunset Park leads one of the groups that says New York shouldn’t scare people away in their moment of need.
A judicial forum last week taught court personnel how false abuse charges can be used as a weapon in custody battles.
An innovative new drug treatment and family counseling center grows on the site of one of Alphabet City’s most notorious cocaine-dealing bodegas.
New York cops and prosecutors have begun applying high-pressure law enforcement tactics to child welfare cases. It makes for good press, but a City Limits investigation finds that some guiltless mothers and their kids are getting punished along with the guilty.
Politicians would just as soon send teenage felons away ’til they’re old and frail. Some teens, however, are getting a second chance–and proving that second chances are a good idea.
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