News

Access to phones, toilets unresolved months before teens leave Rikers for new Bronx juvenile detention center

The city is preparing to move dozens of troubled teens off Rikers Island this fall, but the new Bronx detention facility in which they’ll be housed will in some ways be even more restrictive than jail.

Adolescents who are detained in the new facility, the Horizon Juvenile Center in Mott Haven, won’t be able to make daily phone calls and do legal research in a law library...

 

See link for full article.