Boy charged after head-butting a caseworker A 15-year-old South Lebanon Township boy was charged with aggravated assault after he head-butted a male Lebanon County Children & Youth caseworker while they were traveling in a van at Route 322 and Butler Road in West Cornwall Township at 2:37 p.m. Jan. 13, police said. The caseworker was [...]
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A 13-year-old autistic student is facing felony battery charges in Florida for allegedly hitting a middle school speech therapist in the head with headphones. According to the Pensacola News Journal, Conner Brown was charged on Jan. 2 for battery on a public or private education employee, considered a third-degree felony. He was scheduled to be [...]
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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 [...]
Tryon employees have spoken out the most and the loudest demanding Gladys Carrion removed from her commissioner position. By closing Tryon she will not silence this cause or these people. Her policies and procedures have destroyed OCFS facilities creating terrible working condition yet they continued to go into a dangerous work environment every day to [...]
State Police arrested a Berkshire Farms student on Friday after he allegedly broke another student’s jaw in a fight. An argument in a residential cottage on the Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth campus escalated into the assault of one student by two others, according to police. Christopher allegedly dragged a 17-year-old out of a [...]
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A Tryon Residential Center union official says there’s been a bad stretch of juvenile resident attacks on staff lately, mainly because of the inability of staff to properly restrain or handle the offenders. Several juvenile inmates have been arrested since the start of the year. The latest was a 15-year-old girl who state police said [...]
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A 15-year-old court-committed juvenile female attacked a nurse with a pen. The 56-year old nurse was stabbed in both legs and in the forehead, then kicked in the stomach and face several times. Suffering stab wounds and two chipped teeth. Links to story provided courtesy of Jason Miller: Girl, 15, accused of assault at Tryon http://leaderherald.com/page/content.detail/id/535387/Girl–15–accused-of-assault-at-Tryon.html [...]
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Security videos from New York’s four juvenile prisons show residents assaulting each other and staff, who say current permissive policies make the centers more dangerous. Eileen Carpenter, recently retired from the state Commission of Correction, said Monday she gathered the 2009-10 videos last year while responsible for oversight of the four secure centers that house [...]
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