OCFS Announces Decision to Close Juvenile Facilities Upstate

On Friday, January 11th, OCFS Commissioner Gladys Carrion announced that OCFS will close six underutilized facilities and downsize another, saving the state $16 million annually. “Instead of continuing to pour money into this broken system and confining these children to facilities hundreds of miles from their homes,” the Commissioner said, “OCFS has aggressively been moving toward more community-based alternatives to incarceration where these children can maintain and strengthen connections with their families and the significant adults in their lives.” OFCS Press Release