Lawsuit: Girls Abused at Detention Hall

[Sonicmedusa]

Source: AP


JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse," a youth advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit.

The Mississippi Youth Justice Project sued the state Wednesday on behalf of six girls, ages 13 to 17, and called for the shutdown of the troubled Columbia Training School.

All the girls involved have mental illnesses and were committed for nonviolent offenses, said Sheila Bedi, the Mississippi Youth Project director.

One of the girls in the lawsuit says she was sexually assaulted. Another says a guard sent her a sexually explicit letter. Others were subjected to excessive use of restraints, a lack of mental health care and other abuses at Columbia, the lawsuit says.


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[southerncrone]

1. American avg. Joe: "Who cares they're GIRLS in Mississsippi?"

[Trillo]

2. Is that the sound of more commutations I hear?

[NashVegas]

3. It's Like a Bad '70s Movie

..

[glowing]

4. Is anyone getting the feeling that all jail personnel are getting the sam

abu ghrab training?

[TheLastMohican]

5. They are the same all over

the internal US Abu Graibs just don't get reported.

[glowing]

6. I think they are reported on locally and no nationally... same stuff

was happening at jails in FL.

[Dogmudgeon]

(Server hiccup. Ignore.)

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Teen Gulags are BIG business

And most of it is connected to Fundamentalist Christian churches and businesses.

If you think Internet pedos are worth outrage, wait until Teen Gulags start to hit the news.

Game over. We will get full civil rights for teenagers, including the vote, after some of that slime oozes out of the cracks.

Note to Citation Warriors: Google Is Your Friend. (Popcorn. Desi Arnaz. Fred Rogers.)

--p!

[motocicleta]

8. Holy craps

That's quite a Google. Thanks, P.