The discipline against the four probation officers at the Los Padrinos juvenile hall in Downey was in connection with 'youth-on-youth violence,' officials said.
PORTSMOUTH — City leaders are exploring whether the basement of Portsmouth City Jail can support overnight stays for juvenile inmates to reduce the burden of officers and deputies transporting them to court from housing facilities hours away. Until last year, the city had an agreement to house youth charged with crimes with Chesapeake Juvenile Services, which had been holding minors for other .
BALTIMORE — After a guard repeatedly raped a teenage girl incarcerated in the 1980s at a since-closed Reisterstown juvenile detention facility, she had to be hospitalized after contracting multiple sexually transmitted infections. Decades later, around 2005 or 2006, a correctional officer searched a different teenage girl at a Salisbury detention center, then raped her. She suffered bleeding .
Two teenage girls held at a troubled Kentucky juvenile detention center were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions, including a padded cell with no toilet, a federal class-action lawsuit filed this week alleges. The teens were held at the Adair County Youth Detention Center in late 2022, around the same time state police reported a riot at the facility that started when a juvenile assaulted a staff member.