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The suit alleges that children are being held in detention for months without necessary medical and mental health treatment, educational opportunities, or consistent access to friends and family.
Children who become wards of the state in Illinois have for years been wrongly confined to juvenile detention after a judge orders their release, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.