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 [...]
The Tryon Girls Center, the only remaining piece of a larger, decades-old youth detention facility, will close later this year, resulting in the early release of some inmates, the relocation of others and an uncertain future for hundreds of employees. OCFS Commissioner Gladys Carrion has said she wants to transform the state’s juvenile justice system [...]
A Tryon Residential Center nurse who was attacked, stabbed and beaten a week ago by a naked, unruly 15-year-old female inmate today told her story of how she was placed in a setting where regular youth division aides would have been on duty. Cheryl Huxhold, a 56-year-old Tryon nurse from Fultonville, said the girl was [...]
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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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