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Unions Wary on Counseling For Adolescent Offenders

By MARK TOOR
Posted 8/6/12

The city last week announced a plan to reduce the recidivism rate among adolescents in the city’s jails, which is now nearly 50 percent. The plan, the first of its kind in the country, would have investment giant Goldman Sachs lend a nonprofit group $9.6 million to run a four-year intensive counseling program for 16- to 18-year-olds on Rikers Island.

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