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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. Friday was the deadline a federal judge had set for moving the youths from the prison at Angola in rural West Feliciana Parish. The state had won a temporary delay from a federal appeals court that was preparing to consider the case.
The Office of Juvenile Justice relocated minors from Angola just a day after an appeals court had voted to halt a federal order making the removal mandatory. The OJJ contacted officials in Jackson Parish who just opened a new juvenile justice facility this year. They are already serving youth in local programs and they can provide temporary housing while the new state-run Swanson secure care facility is completed.
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.
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