The inadequacies of New York State’s detention facilities for young offenders in Family Court are nearly matched by the shortage of options within the city.

Biurny Peguero got up to three years in prison after her lies caused a man to spend nearly four years behind bars.

The Varick Detention Facility in Greenwich Village is supposed to relocate 300 detainees to New Jersey by Friday.

The Varick Detention Facility in Greenwich Village is supposed to relocate 300 detainees to New Jersey by Friday.

The Varick Detention Facility in Greenwich Village is supposed to relocate 300 detainees to New Jersey by Friday.

New York has 13,000 fewer inmates today than it did in 1999, when the prison population was at its peak, but closing prisons is even harder than closing hospitals.

At Highland Residential Center, part of the New York juvenile prison system, Edwin, 18, feared for his safety, received little counseling and left no better prepared for life outside than when he arrived there.

Imam Zulqarnain Abu-Shahid had been accused of trying to smuggle metal blades into the Manhattan Detention Complex.

The new policy prohibits shackles from being used under any circumstances for youths held at so-called nonsecure and limited-secure youth prisons.

Imam Zulqarnain Abu-Shahid was charged with various counts of promoting prison contraband after an X-ray machine at the Manhattan jail alerted officers to the items in his bag.