Officials say a new juvenile lockup was 'born of necessity.' Experts call it 'child abuse.'

[Jilly_in_VA]

Lawyers and a judge gathered in an East Baton Rouge juvenile courtroom last October for an update on a teenager detained after joyriding in a stolen car. The teen appeared on a screen, alongside a caseworker who stunned everyone by describing conditions in the lockup where he was held.

The 15-year-old was being kept in round-the-clock solitary confinement. He was getting no education, in violation of state and federal law, nor was he getting court-ordered substance abuse counseling, according to two defense attorneys present. And no one in the room that day — not the judge, not the prosecutor, not the defense lawyers — appeared to have heard of the facility where Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice was holding him, the Acadiana Center for Youth at St. Martinville.

“It was as if a secret prison had been opened up,” one of the attorneys, Jack Harrison, said. “I could see on the judge’s face both shock and real anger — visceral anger.”

They had no idea how bad it was.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-juvenile-detention-st-martinvillle-rcna19227
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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. K&R. Fuck the carceral state.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Poor kid

He did a crime and ended up abused.

Solitary btw is classified as torture these days.

I was in solitary for 9 months because thats what psychiatrists thought back than would help people with mental illness.

A law was passed years later that limited stays in seclusion to no more than 2 hours.

Wish they'd pass a law like that to limit how long juvenile prisoners stayed in seclusion too.

[Demovictory9]

3. Kick