{"id":3398,"date":"2025-10-15T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3398\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:20:07","slug":"the-push-for-nyc-jail-reform-should-address-a-complex-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3398\/","title":{"rendered":"The push for NYC jail reform should address a complex truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Administration for Children\u2019s Services is tasked with overseeing juvenile detention centers where young children charged with and\/or convicted of crimes are housed as part of their sentences. Yet the Legal Aid Society accused the agency on Tuesday of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/legal-aid-society-juvenile-detention-abuses-bronx-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">maltreating children in their care at two juvenile detention facilities in the Bronx and Brooklyn<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Legal Aid accused the ACS, in a letter to its commissioner, Jess Dannhauser, of creating a neglectful environment where nearly 100 juvenile detainees live in unassigned quarters, meaning they do not have designated rooms or cells where they sleep or can store their valuables.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/editorial\/nyc-jail-reform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tEditorial | The push for NYC jail reform should address a complex truth &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The city\u2019s Administration for Children\u2019s Services is tasked with overseeing juvenile detention centers where young children charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3775,128,98,3776,3777,304,3778,3779,3780,3781,3782,3783,9,24,63,3842,3784,1083,129,131,130,3785],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-administration-for-childrens-services","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-correctional-system-accountability","tag-criminal-justice","tag-editorial","tag-inmate-conditions","tag-jail-reform","tag-juvenile-detention","tag-juvenile-justice","tag-legal-aid-society","tag-mental-health-in-detention","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-oped","tag-prison-oversight","tag-rikers-island","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-youth-rehabilitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}