Finally, Georgia seems to have a YDC Director with some common sense. The past administration that couldn’t let the exit door hit them in the ass fast enough. When the past administration took over and changed the YDC’s policies to where staff could no longer maintain control over the juvenile population, the staff called what [...]
The school day was well under way when the fight between two boys broke out on the fourth floor of Overbrook High School: A 17-year-old walking to class was punched multiple times by a younger boy. At first, the unarmed school police officers who intervened didn’t think the incident was serious enough to summon city [...]
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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7th Circuit ruled that A special education teacher cannot sue her school district in Federal Court for injuries suffered while trying to block an autistic child from hitting her with a chair. W.K. began second grade at White Eagle Elementary in 2005. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, the 7-year-old had a history of verbal outbursts and [...]
The recent riots in Britain have forced policy makers to look anew at a juvenile justice system. It wasn’t long ago that David Cameron launched what became known as his “Hug a Hoodie” campaign — an initiative born of a public outcry over Britain’s ill-behaved youths, and one that ended in ridicule when hooded youths [...]
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At least six high school students could face criminal charges as early as next week in the juvenile court, following a fight that left three teens in hospital suffering from head injuries, police said yesterday. According to police, about 12 to 15 tenth graders from Anatol Rodgers High School were involved in a fight around [...]
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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 [...]
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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Assembly Report Reveals Spike in Violence Against Staff in NYS’s Juvenile Justice Facilities http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=025&sh=story&story=37638 May 17, 2010 As previewed in today’s Times Union, Assembly Member Rory Lancman (D-Queens), Chair of the Subcommittee on Workplace Safety, released a report today revealing a 42% increase in assaults on staff at the state Office of Children and Family [...]