Five teens, three of whom the state recently removed from a youth lockup at the State Penitentiary at Angola, attempted a violent escape from a north Louisiana jail this week,
State officials are poised to remove teens from a north Louisiana youth jail plagued by allegations that guards raped incarcerated youth, failed to respond to suicide attempts and operated with
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.”
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
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