There were 257 youth-on-youth attacks at Horizon Juvenile Center in Mott Haven during the fiscal year ending June 30 — nearly double the 135 incidents during the same period in fiscal 2021, a…
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Unlike Rikers Island and other adult jails, teens at both detention centers live in cushier dormitory-like settings — not in cells behind bars. During the day, their rooms aren’t locked, and they attend school and participate in other programs. Steve J. Martin, a court-appointed federal monitor overseeing troubled Rikers Island who also has some oversight of Horizon, noted the juvenile facility is plagued with violence — and suggested in an October report that staffers often don’t intervene because they fear for their lives.
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