Betrayal upon betrayal
When members of the juvenile justice system sent youths to YDC, it was expected that they would be contained and hoped that they would benefit from some order and positive role modeling. It was not intended that they be sentenced to a period of child abuse they could not escape and likely worse than what they might already have suffered. This was a horrific perversion of the juvenile justice system.
And what, one wonders, of the administrators at the YDC? They knew, or should have known, what was going on and they should have stopped it rather than having been complicit. They are never identified, though it could be argued that they deserve the same public shaming as the direct perpetrators.
Now, rather than humbly apologizing for these egregious wrongs and paying the victims agreed upon reparations, the State of New Hampshire is reneging on their original agreement. A mutually agreeable system had been administered by a person of impeccable integrity. It promised a measure of justice.
The machinations of the government are shameful! The state actors, from the governor on down who are perpetrating these new abuses of power in service of saving money should reverse course immediately and put this disgraceful chapter to rest with some measure of decency.