Under new management—Shelby County sheriff plans to turn over youth center to juvenile court actionnews5.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from actionnews5.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Critics say practice is risky. “It increases nearly every kind of behavior that we all want to stop,” said one Disability Rights North Carolina expert.
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Controversial practice puts youths' mental health and the public’s safety at risk, experts say; for one teen who got out: ‘I didn’t know right from wrong’
Mentally ill kids caught in a failing juvenile justice system go through a merry-go-round of crimes, languish in detention, locked in solitary and denied treatment