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Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Health Department's Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, said officials had not determined whether more detention wards would be needed.

A State Supreme Court justice has ruled that the city must provide health care, public assistance and other services to those who have been released from psychiatric detention wards in New York City hospitals.

Residents' hopes for an after-school youth center at the site of the Spofford Juvenile Detention Center appeared dashed last month when the city reversed itself and decided to reopen youth detention wards there.

The new spending programs, the advisers said, include a panoply of modest initiatives, like $10 million toward an eventual $200 million fund to help cultural groups raise capital, and the hiring of 640 new state workers - among them 70 state troopers, and enough guards to open two new juvenile detention wards to alleviate crowding.