The state broke its promise to jailed youth. We’ll all pay for it
When 43 young men living at the Green Hill juvenile lockup were abruptly handcuffed and sent to state prison last month, lots of people surely assumed they were the worst of the worst — unrepentant and irredeemable.
After all, the state Department of Children, Youth and Families argued that conditions at Green Hill were so dangerous they had no choice. The atmosphere was a tinderbox about to explode, officials said. To get control they needed fewer inmates.
