A D.C. Council member didn’t hold back at a recent oversight hearing on the troubled agency in charge of housing youth involved with the District’s juvenile justice system.
“I think what is happening at DYRS is dangerous, and you’re failing on your mission,” Councilmember Zachary Parker told Sam Abed, director of D.C.’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), referring to violence, overcrowding and other problems inside the facility.
On the day the hearing was underway, so was an assault at the Youth Services Center (YSC) involving 11 young people, the I-Team found; violence so bad one youth was hit in the head with a stapler and another suffered broken bones around one eye…