Perspective
Aug. 27, 2014
For juvenile inmates, the system is broken
In her new book "Burning Down the House," Nell Bernstein maintains that the brutal conditions found on Rikers Island are not an aberration in our juvenile prisons. By Elaine Elinson
On Aug. 4, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan released a jaw-dropping 79-page report describing a "deep-seated culture of violence" against juvenile offenders held in Rikers Island in New York City.
The perpetuators of the violence were not the youthful prisoners, but the correctional officers who beat, kicked, pepper sprayed and brutalized the teenage inmates, resulting in a "staggering" number of injuries, with few or...
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