WA still holds teens in solitary confinement — and worse, suit says

WA still holds teens in solitary confinement — and worse, suit says
A lawsuit claims three teenagers were handcuffed while in isolation, violating the state’s own policies and raising profound moral questions.
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Even in the most barren environments, it is possible to see new growth. But that’s no foundation on which to build public policy when we’re talking about kids.
Four years ago, Michael Rogers, then 17, was sitting in solitary confinement at the Regional Justice Center, in Kent, for his part in the robbery and murder of a 16-year-old high school athlete from Federal Way, a boy named Wesley Gennings. The rage and disgust provoked by this crime hardly need reiterating. Yet lawyers at Columbia Legal Services claimed that Rogers, too, was a victim when he and other teenagers at the adult jail were held in windowless isolation cells, sometimes for months. So, in 2017, they filed a lawsuit.

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