On Monday, the district attorney’s office charged Garland Duplessis, while the city denied his appeal of his termination. Duplessis, a former counselor at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center in Gentilly, is accused of beating a 16-year-old with a radio and his fist, breaking the youth’s nose.
Newly arrested juveniles in Orleans Parish will sleep on makeshift cots in the city s Gentilly detention center, as the building hit maximum capacity last Wednesday.
Travis Hill School inside the Orleans Justice Center and the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center has been recognized as a, 'Louisiana Comeback School.'