Videos show teen inmates being pepper sprayed at Wisconsin youth prison
Videos of two teen inmates being sprayed repeatedly by guards at the state's youth prison in Irma were released to the public on Thursday.
The recordings were shown during a two-day court hearing last month in lawsuit filed against the state Department of Corrections by former and current inmates at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls juvenile correctional facility. The inmates are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and the Juvenile Law Center.
One recording from April 2016 shows a female inmate being sprayed after refusing to go to her cell. Instead, the girl remained in the hallway pacing around. Eventually, a guard pepper-sprayed her when she continued to refuse to walk into her room. A guard sprayed her again after she dropped on the hallway floor with other guards holding her.
In a second video, guards twice sprayed an inmate who was inside his cell but refused to move his arms into the cell.
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Note: The videos that appeared with this article have apparently been taken down.