Tuesday, October 10, 2017
How NYC And Missouri Are Reforming Juvenile Justice — Without Razor Wire Fences
In a quiet working-class neighborhood in southwest Queens, amid a canopy of mature red oak, inside a brick converted church rectory, beyond a threshold of mosaic tile, live five juvenile delinquents.
They sleep in beds with plaid quilts, not on metal slabs. The walls are painted yellow, blue and green, not institutional gray. They eat on a wooden dining room table, not on steel bolted to the floor. There are no food fights here. If a boy is hungry, he asks for seconds. . .