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More than a dozen boys released from Louisiana’s largest maximum security prison have been sent to another adult prison in a move described as “short term.”
Louisiana officials removed juvenile inmates from a controversial holding facility on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola on Friday, but the legal battle surrounding the conditions at the facility is continuing.
Wikimedia CommonsLast week, Louisiana finally agreed to transfer youth detainees from the state’s largest maximum-security adult prison —only to move them to another adult facility.After attempting an appeal to Chief Judge Shelly Dick’s order to release 15 boys incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary, the state moved the youth to the Jackson Parish Jail—a detention center for adults but also with a youth division.Both the Office of Juvenile Justice and a spokesperson for Louisiana Gov. John
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Juvenile detainees who were being held at a former death row building at Louisiana s adult penitentiary were transferred to a new facility in north Louisiana, state juvenile justice officials said Friday.