The mentally ill are frequently mistreated in licensed residential facilities.
In addition, it has the best academic and residential facilities in the country, the ministry said.
Many residents do so well that within a year, they are discharged to residential facilities, he said.
In fact, I travelled there and spent an afternoon touring a factory, walking through all its production and residential facilities.
For the same reasons, children can be rejected from residential facilities run by nonprofit organizations like the Children's Village.
While many of the 1,600 young people sent to New York residential facilities each year are there for committing serious felony-level offenses, the majority are not.
(HELP still exists, with Maria Cuomo Cole as the board chair, and it has established thirty-two residential facilities for the homeless).
The government says the village code allows nonreligious residential facilities like motels and sleep-away camps, but forbids similar facilities for religious groups.
For example, the homes -- originally intended for the elderly who did not need full-time care -- are still classified only as residential facilities.
Tobacco shops, hotel rooms designated as smoking and specially designated smoking areas in residential facilities are exempt from the law, which will go into effect on June 4.
A consensus is emerging among juvenile justice policymakers, including prosecutors, that New York must limit the number of young people sent to expensive prison-like residential facilities.
