Posted on 12/07/2001 5:23:36 AM PST by ZULU
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:37:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Joe Clark fired back at state juvenile justice officials yesterday, saying they were encouraging a possible gang uprising at the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center by criticizing him for using harsh measures to restore order to the facility.
Clark, the facility's famously combative director, made a defiant response to a report by the Juvenile Justice Commission that accused him of using straitjackets, long-term isolation and other prohibited measures to control his detainees.
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Once more, Joe Clark, a real American hero, finds himself the victim of politically correct political stool-pigeons in a bureaurocracy.
FREEP the State of New Jersey on this nonesense and persecution of man who knows how to deal with malefactors and maintain order in an institution.
(Patti Sapone/The Star-Ledger) 
Essex County Juvenile Detention Center Director Joe Clark fired back at state juvenile justice officials, saying they were encouraging a possible gang uprising at the facility by criticizing his disciplinary methods.
The stories leading up to this one:
Report of abuse at youth house spurs feds to continue lawsuit
My alma mater although I predated Joe Clark.
I think it was Morgan Freeman playing Joe Clark. Pretty good casting.
(p.s. - that scene in "Lean On Me" when Freeman/Clark lectures a young kid doing drugs is one of the BEST anti-drug rants I've ever heard. It ought to be made into a 30-second spot that runs on MTV, VH1 and BET once an hour.)
Could be, but I think they go to JF Kennedy, the other high school.
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