Social Justice Group Calls For Closure Of New Jersey Training School For Boys At Rally

A social justice group has called for the closure of the New Jersey Training School for Boys (NJTS). Ryan Haygood, the executive director of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ), has planned a rally to close the 150 year old school, which serves as the state's largest youth detention facility.

NJISJ cites a 90 percent recidivism rate of young black and Latino offenders back into NJTS as evidence of the facility's ineffectiveness. Those numbers come from a 2012 report from the state Department of Corrections. If NJTS were to be shut down, NJISJ has suggested a . . .