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| Program Keeps Troubled New York Youth Close to Home |
| By .nytimes.com - Liz Robbins |
| Published: 05/06/2013 |
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The end of the road is a yellow brick house in East New York, Brooklyn, that was once a rectory. Mone’t arrived there on Dec. 28 with a bad attitude and four years of baggage. Kirsten Luce for The New York Times In and out of the Queens courts for fighting and using marijuana, Mone’t, 17, seemed headed to Rikers Island to be charged as an adult. Then a judge placed her in a new program called Close to Home, the centerpiece of an overhaul by the city and the state of the juvenile justice system. “I don’t want to be in and out of jail; it’s not me, I can’t do it,” Mone’t (pronounced mo-NAY) said recently in the yellow brick home, the Shirley Chisholm House, where she is one of 11 female teenage residents. (She is identified by only her middle name to protect her privacy.) Read More. |
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