Despite promises for more appropriate lodgings, the city continues to detain teens who’ve committed minor offenses in prison-like facilities.

Goshen Secure Center has all the trappings of a maximum-security prison for teenage boys. But the kids being sent there these days are in for minor offenses like a fist…

How the fragmentation of New York’s courts does injustice to families.

Teenage girls appearing in Family Court are being rerouted from a group home to maximum-security jails, and the judges aren’t too happy about it.

Slum landlords can rest easy. The corps of city lawyers that defends tenants against code violations has been slashed from 45 attorneys to 18 in the last four years.

The city’s child welfare agency is funneling borderline cases into an already overwhelmed Family Court system. The result is more kids are in foster care-and they’re staying in limbo longer.