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Union: Moving Sick Teen Offenders To Horizon Risky for Them, Staff

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 4/6/20

The union that represents Youth Development Specialists, Program Counselors and other staff at the city’s juvenile detention centers slammed a plan by the Administration for Children’s Services to send juvenile offenders displaying symptoms of coronavirus to Horizon Juvenile Center.

Teens who showed no symptoms of coronavirus were moved from the Bronx facility to Brooklyn’s Crossroads April 1, according to Darek Robinson, the vice president for grievances for District Council 37’s Local 371.

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