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CHICAGO In a scathing new report, a group of juvenile justice experts said the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center - a five-story fortress with courtrooms and a public school that houses as many as 175 youths on any given day on Chicago s West Side - should be permanently shut down and replaced with smaller, community-based facilities focused on rehabilitation.
Most kids and teenagers there the vast majority of whom are Black spend at least 13 hours per day locked in their small cells: One hour to lock down the facility during shift changes and from 7pm to 7am for what jail officials refer to as “sleeping hours.”
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