Staff injuries in city juvenile centers quadrupled during a recent 12-month period, with the transfer of 16- and 17-year-old offenders from Rikers Island to the Horizon Juvenile Center under the state’s Raise the Age Law generally regarded as the prime reason.
As city Correction Officers continue to be phased out of their duties at Horizon, Youth Development Specialists are about to be equipped with stab-resistant vests to protect them from the assaultive teens in their care, the worst of whom tend to be gang members.
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