Last summer, 34 young New Yorkers fanned out across the city’s courtrooms to observe a combined 600 hours of youth court appearances. The aim: to evaluate the effects of the state’s historic Raise the Age legislation, which stopped the automatic prosecution of 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, in New York City. The report by the […]
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Federal Monitor to Abandon Violence-Plagued Horizon Juvenile Center
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Sometime this fall, the last of the remaining teens detained under the watch of city Department of Correction officers at Horizon Juvenile Center in The Bronx will turn 18. Their birthday gift, if they […]
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Force More Frequent Against Teens At Juvenile Lockups
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Staff use of force against teens held at juvenile detention centers is growing more frequent, city officials said Tuesday as they came under fire for a rocky start to a law designed to protect […]
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Correction Officers Get Lavish Welcome at Juvenile Center They’re Due to Exit
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. The Bronx’s Horizon Juvenile Center is “plagued by disorder,” a court-appointed monitor for city jails reported last week — finding correction officers are far likelier to use force on young detainees there than in […]
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Legal System Off to Slow Start on ‘Raise The Age’ Night-Court Fix
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. A legislative fix intended to spare 16- and 17-year-olds charged with a felony from adult court and send them straight to family court on nights and weekends is having a rough beginning. Not one […]
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Big Influx of 17-Year-Olds Poses Next ‘Raise the Age’ Test
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Beginning next week, 17-year-olds will be taken out of the adult criminal justice system — marking the final phase of New York’s historic Raise the Age legislation. But the law will be put to […]
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Some Teen Detainees Still Treated Like Adults, or Worse, Despite ‘Raise The Age’
New York’s new “Raise the Age” law was designed to end the automatic prosecution of minors as adults and ensure that teens facing felony charges be processed by specially trained judges, separately from those 18 and older. But according to data obtained by THE CITY, only 32% of eligible teens citywide were first seen in […]
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No Green Space in Sight at Bronx Youth Detention Center
The Bronx detention center that took in teens from Rikers Island is keeping them indoors during much of their recreation time, thanks to months of delays in opening a new exercise field. The yard at Horizon Juvenile Center remains under construction eight months after youth started moving in following the “Raise the Age” law, which […]