Revamping Juvenile Justice Is Long, Difficult Road - WNYC
Gladys Carrion, the New York Commissioner of the State's Office of Children and Family Services, has been trying to alter the stark statistics since she took her job in 2007. She's made a lot of big changes, including establishing a bigger staff to inmate ratio and specialized care. But she says there are tremendous challenges to transforming a system based on punishment into one of rehabilitation.
