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2009
National and local shift toward reform and "Therapeutic Justice. "
US Department of Justice publishes an investigation report, finding that four
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New York juvenile detention sites violate constitutional standards in the areas of protection from harm and mental health care.
Governor David Paterson's Task
Force on Transforming Juvenile Justice reports New York's
"punitive, correctional approach has damaged the future prospects of these young people, wasted millions of tax dollars and violated the fundamental principles of positive youth development." The Task Force makes a series of recommendations to shift to a more supportive and therapeutic model of juvenile justice.
The New York City Department of Juvenile Justice is taken over by the New York City Administration for
Children's Services (ACS).
The goal of this merger is to increase the use of alternatives to incarceration.
Under ACS Commissioner, Gladys
Carrión, New York closes down over a dozen juvenile detention centers by 2011.
Even as reforms take place in parts of the city, mass policing and surveillance grows. Under Mayor Bloomberg, discriminatory police stops and street interrogations (AKA stop & frisk) reach their peak. More than 685,000 people are stopped & frisked in 2011. 87% of people stopped are Black or Latinx. More than half of the people stopped are youth between the ages of 14 and 24.
