End the brutality: State juvenile lockups must not be torture chambers

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/08/29/2009-08-29_end_the_brutality_state_juvenile_lockups_must_not_be_torture_chambers.html

You would sooner sentence a teenager to a third-world hellhole than condemn him or her to the brutal, neglectful mercies of New York's detention facilities for troubled juveniles.