NY.OCFS Is an Irreparable Mess. Solution: Promote OCFS’ Commissioner to Head OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice Detention and Probation)

  • SEX ORGIES
  • SHREDDED DOCUMENTS
  • A DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INVESTIGATION
  • MULTIPLE FATALITIES FROM SHOOTINGS AND STAFF BEING BEATEN TO DEATH
  • A SCATHING DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INVESTIGATORY REPORT
  • 42% INCREASE IN ASSAULTS AGAINST STAFF


THE SOLUTION – PROMOTE THE COMMISSIONER


From the NY POST

The Adage: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, goes the timeless street ethic takes on new meaning at OCFS if you’re lucky enough to be sent to a prison facility overseen by state Children and Family Services Commissioner Gladys Carrion.

As Post state editor Fredric U. Dicker has reported, a suspected prostitute and an underage girl were the guests of honor at what turned into a sex party behind bars for a bunch of convicted murderers, gang-bangers and other inmates at one of Carrion’s youth prisons.

Carrion, you see, believes in a “therapeutic” approach to the inmates at her facilities, which house violent criminals under the age of 21.

So, last December, the Goshen Secure Center in upstate Orange County hosted a “social” for its violent residents “as part of our way of incentivizing good behavior,” a spokeswoman said.

Indeed, they were allowed to invite outside “guests.” A state employee was even dispatched to Albany to personally drive two of them there and back — a four-hour round trip at $36 an hour. But as security cameras disclosed, this was no old-fashioned fruit-punch and slow-dance affair.

The tapes showed numerous sex acts involving the inmates and the outsiders, who included a 15-year-old girl and a suspected prostitute who’d been sent $100 by a prisoner.

Once security guards saw what was going on, the orgy was broken up — and now the whole socials “experiment is on moratorium,” the agency says.

That’s hardly good enough.

Senate Republicans rightly want Carrion fired — yet, incredibly, Gov. Paterson rejected that, saying “she’s done an excellent job.” (The inmates, no doubt, agree.)

Two days later, though, he reversed course — sort of: He introduced legislation to overhaul the state’s juvenile prisons, based on the recommendations of a task force that found that the system is broken almost beyond repair.

Yet, incredibly, Carrion is reportedly under consideration to head the US Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Protection.

Paterson’s proposals include naming an independent office to monitor problems at the prisons — but he’d do better simply to give Carrion the ax.

And before the possibility of her getting a federal job gets any traction, someone in Washington should ask the question posed by Orange County DA Frank Phillips: “What the hell is going on in these facilities?”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/fulsome_prison_blues_rxQyp6BnulziqerJoRnGOJ#ixzz0q8G9Wz00

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