Prohibits the detainment of minors with adult detainees in the city of New York.
This bill amends the correction law to prohibit the detainment of minors with adult detainees in the city of New York. It mandates that youth under the age of eighteen must be housed in a secure juvenile detention facility separate from adults. The bill also defines "older youth detention facility" as a secure juvenile detention facility for adolescent and juvenile offenders aged eighteen to twenty-one.
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