Vincent Schiraldi, the controversial head of the District's Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, will head the New York City probation department. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Schiraldi's appointment at a city hall press conference this morning.
The move brings to an end Schiraldi's long and contentious tenure here in the District. An outspoken advocate of [...]

A day after local poo-bahs at DYRS opened its New Beginnings Youth Center, a New Beginnings inmate escaped.
With much fanfare, the facility replaced the infamous Oak Hill juvenile detention facility. Officials had trumpeted its very un-jail like citing; local media had repeatedly compared it to a college campus. "This is the anti-prison," Vincent N. Schiraldi, [...]