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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.
Because the video wasn’t deleted until April 2021, it was one of more than 500 videos that attracted 1.7 million views and 11,300 subscribers to Kim’s YouTube channel, eventually earning ...
The U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into Kentucky’s juvenile justice system comes at a critical moment. The system's new commissioner has warned legislators that several new tough ...
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 ...
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.
Angola’s 18,000 acres make it one of the largest prison campuses in the world. It has enough space between buildings that the teens can be held far from adult prisoners, but advocates and ...
Subsequently, the county government began soliciting other counties in Tennessee and surrounding states to send their "detained youth" to the Rutherford County juvenile jail for incarceration, at $175 per day per child. In a promotional video, the county indicated that over 20 Tennessee counties had contracted with Rutherford's juvenile jail.
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.