The Star Ledger Editorial Board wrote:
New Jersey’s youth prisons are operating at half capacity, spending a fortune and utterly failing at their core mission: rehabilitating kids so they don’t commit new crimes.
That’s why advocates with the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice are kicking off a campaign this week to shutter our state’s largest youth prison, Jamesburg, and the only prison for girls, known as Hayes. That would leave open one medium security prison for boys, in Bordentown…