Carrie Chalmers volunteered as a tutor at a New York state detention facility for girls.
The report “Custody and Control” documents the excessive use of a face-down “restraint” procedure, incidents of sexual abuse, and inadequate educational and mental health services at New York’s highest security juvenile prisons for girls.
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“Custody and Control” reports that “delinquent” young girls from backgrounds of intergenerational poverty, many of whom have survived abuse and trauma, are locked up and again abused and neglected, this time at the hands of the state.
Carrie Chalmers was a volunteer tutor and relays her first-hand account of the educational, health and abuse crises happening at New York state facilities that were designed to rehabilitate juveniles, but instead seem to build and reinforce a criminal nature.
Download the entire program (25:29 minutes) or listen by chapter topics below:
CHAPTER 1, EDUCATION (6:19 minutes)
> The educational level of the girls
> Tutoring as “privilege”
> Books and resources shared or unavailable
CHAPTER 2, HEALTH (5:46 minutes)
> Medication
> Food
> Hygiene
CHAPTER 3, RESTRAINT (10:10 minutes)
> Witnessing “approved” restraint tactics
> Account of verbal abuse
> Typical day at juvenile detention
CHAPTER 4, LANGUAGE (1:32 minutes)
> System lingo for a hopeful future
CHAPTER 5, EVALUATION (2:07 minutes)
> Summary of what is happening in juvenile detention
> What can be done about the system
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