BATON ROUGE — A federal judge said Friday the state can no longer send its most-violent juvenile offenders to a youth prison on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, finding after seven days of testimony that the Office of Juvenile Justice routinely violated the constitutional rights of the dozens of children it had sent there.
Prison officials were reportedly punishing children, most of whom were Black boys, with handcuffs, pepper spray, and extended time in solitary confinement.
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Contrary to the state's promises, the kids were held in solitary confinement for days at a time, punished with pepper spray and denied access to educational and rehabilitative services.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered that incarcerated youths be removed from a temporary lockup at a former death row building in Louisiana’s adult maximum-security