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An October 2022 riot at the Ohio Department of Youth Services' Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility in Massillon started when a new employee opened a cell door for a teen who asked for water.
The U.S. Justice Department found on Thursday that Texas has routinely violated the civil rights of juveniles at five of its detention facilities by using excessive force, failing to protect them ...
Now the former correction officer finds herself behind bars, according to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Juvenile correction officer fired, arrested for giving inmates contraband, officials ...
Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term ...
Research by Nashville Public Radio and ProPublica found the Rutherford County juvenile incarcerations to be far out of the national norm for juvenile arrests, and further discovered that the county authorities had charged some of the children under non-existent laws, as directed by Judge Davenport. The researchers found that, among Tennessee ...
The former corrections officer was locked up in the Richland County jail, DJJ officials said. Juvenile corrections officer arrested, fired for selling inmates contraband, officials say Skip to ...
The Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth in Louisiana had been open for only three years when it was first sued by the United States Department of Justice (in collaboration with local activists in the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana) for violating the civil rights of youth held in its confines—marking the first time in U.S. history ...
In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.