Drugs, cash and razor blades are flowing into New York City's two juvenile detention centers through a network of employees supplying teenagers with contraband, according to current and former employees.
Donate NowDrugs, cash and razor blades are flowing into the city’s juvenile detention centers through a network of employees supplying teenagers with contraband, according to current and former employees.
Interviews with current employees and a union official who represents workers at the centers reveal a tightly protected network of staffers who smuggle in contraband like Percocet, promethazine, liquor, cannabis, cash, and razor blades tucked into wads of chewed gum. Former staffers say the “Raise the Age'' law said the measure had good intentions, but its implementation brought a culture from Rikers Island into the ACS detention centers. Drug smuggling is not an uncommon practice on Rikers Island, where“Everything pretty much went south when that took place because [ACS] doesn’t really know how to handle these kids,” said Robinson. “You have grown men in these facilities and the programs are designed for 15 and under.
“A lot of razors are floating around very freely in both facilities,” said Robinson. “The staff find them and take them, then there’s fresh razors there the next day.” One youth development specialist working at Crossroads in Brooklyn said his job title is more like “juvenile corrections officer,” managing teenagers who threaten to jump staffers in pairs or groups.
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