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Inside the Budget, NYC Independent Budget Office, July 11, 2006 Each year the city sends roughly 1,200 juvenile lawbreakers to jail-like facilities in upstate New York. At an average annual cost to the city totaling well over $100 million, some of the youth are placed in institutions run by the state's Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) and others go to privately operated facilities under contract with OCFS. But two new programs with an alternative approach are now saving the city considerable expense and may prove to be more effective at rehabilitation than the institutional approach. |
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Daily News, E. Einhorn, June 26, 2007 They were smart children who tested into a gifted kindergarten at Harlem's Public School 36 in 1994, but Lance Patterson and Ronnie Rodriguez would each fall in with the wrong crowd. |
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City Limits, W. Davis, May/June 2005 Juvenile delinquents get sent upstate because it’s supposed to be a better environment than their homes. The Department of Probation has a new idea: Fix the family instead. |
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