Weeks after promising the federal government that it would improve conditions at four of its most notorious youth prisons, New York state is discussing a settlement of a separate civil rights lawsuit challenging the treatment of juvenile delinquents that includes seven more facilities.
The Legal Aid Society and the Office for Children and Family Services “have agreed to engage in detailed settlement negotiations” in an attempt to resolve G.B. v. Carrion, 09 Civ. 10582, Legal Aid wrote to Southern District Judge Paul A. Crotty on Aug. 10.
