Yesterday a violent youth released from OCFS’ juvenile custody shot a NYC police officer in the back of the head critically wounding him. OCFS’ staff who have been repeatedly injured by these youth offenders and Civil Service Employees Association, are using this latest high profile crime in New York City as just another illustration of [...]
State Senator Joe Griffo has written a letter to Commissioner Gladys Carrion of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services to take immediate action on reports of multiple injuries of staff at Taberg Residential Center. Senator Griffo says he wants the Office of Children and Family Services to provide adequate staffing, proper [...]
The head of New York’s largest public employee union said workers in state juvenile detention facilities are literally taking a beating at the hands of youths assigned to their care. CSEA President Danny Donohue warned about increasingly dangerous conditions in the facilities, including one where 19 staff, including the facility director, have recently been victims [...]
The New York Times continued on Friday its important, but distressing, series of articles on the maltreatment of the developmentally disabled in New York State and the lack of oversight of their care in the state’s group homes. Friday’s article focused on the misuse of antipsychotic medication to restrain residents’ behavior, instead of treating their [...]
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Police arrested 10 students at the Richard R. Green High School in Lower Manhattan Monday after a brawl spun out of control, police and education officials said. The fight broke out in the lobby of the school at 26 Broadway at 11 a.m. Monday, then spread upstairs to the cafeteria, a DOE spokeswoman said. One [...]
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Former OCFS employees are all firmly united in their claims that the root cause of the surge in violence can be traced back to the moment Gladys Carrion assumed the reigns of the OCFS. Many cited a marked increase in gang violence at state facilities as testament to the failure of the administration’s policies. Carrion [...]
Two Berkshire Farm Center runaways sought by State Police over the weekend were taken into custody late Sunday. Xavier Rowse, of Greenwich, and Austin Parent, of Northumberland, both 16, ran away from the Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth in Caanan late Friday. The youths reportedly stole a 2005 Nissan X-terra from a parking [...]
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Police cars swarmed Monday around Thomas R. Proctor High School, blocking off streets while officers waited on nearby corners for the school’s roughly 2,600 students to be dismissed. The show of force came after a large fight Friday on Hoover Avenue that involved around 150 youths crowding the block surrounding a fight in front of [...]
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Nine bystanders in the hallway of a Bronx high school were hit with mace when a school safety officer sprayed at a student in an attempt to break up a fight on Thursday morning, the police said. The officer tried to intervene in a fistfight between an 18-year-old student and a 16-year-old student outside the [...]
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