At a Halfway House, Bedlam Reigns ... privatized correctional facilities.

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    This sounds like a nightmare of fraud and corruption... and a huge waste of money. Gov Chris Christie needs to shut this down and have these incompetent swindlers put in prison .



    At a Halfway House, Bedlam Reigns

    The Bo Robinson center in New Jersey is as large as a prison and is intended to help inmates re-enter society. But The New York Times found that drugs, gangs and sexual abuse are rife behind its walls.

    June 17, 2012

    TRENTON — Most of the attacks happened inside the supply closet. Away from workers or security cameras. A dark space that Vanessa Falcone tried desperately to avoid.

    Ms. Falcone was an inmate at the Albert M. “Bo” Robinson Assessment and Treatment Center, a 900-bed halfway house here that is at the vanguard of a national movement to privatize correctional facilities.

    She was assigned to the cleaning crew, under the supervision of a janitor. One night in 2009, he ordered her into the closet.

    “He took his pants off and grabbed my hair and pushed me down,” Ms. Falcone, now 32, said in an interview. “That started a few weeks of basically hell.”

    Finally, she told a senior guard that she was being sexually assaulted, according to internal reports written by the guard.

    She was immediately transferred to another halfway house. The janitor was dismissed. And that is where it ended.


    State officials and prosecutors did not conduct an inquiry into the allegations or the halfway house, which is run by Community Education Centers, a company with close ties to New Jersey politicians, including Chris Christie, who became governor in 2010

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