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A Question of Security
The "investigation discovered allegations of overfilling and security gaps at three major facilities in South Florida- the Miami Metrorail system and the Juvenile Assessment Center and a major hospital. All have contacts with Wackenhut, one of the largest security companies in America. The publicly funded contracts involve millions of dollars. Not only did we observe unfilled posts first-hand, but guards, former guards and supervisors went public detailing a pattern of fraud."
Tags: security; fraud; city government; contracts; transportation; health care; hospital; guards; Wakenhut
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Hidden in Plain Sight
This investigation uncovered a confidential report of a state police investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of juveniles by administrators at a state-run youth lockup in West Texas. The agency managed to keep the scandal buried for almost two years. Since the scandal took place, people involved have gone unpunished and are even still working with children.
Tags: abuse; sexual offender; state government; confidential sources; FOIA; correctional facility; sexual abuse; Texas government
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Mission Unaccomplished
The juvenile corrections systems of the state of Ohio and Missouri are compared and contrasted, with the Missouri system serving as an example of what is right, and the Ohio system the opposite. The Ohio system is presented as one which favors punishment, while Missouri's goal is "nurturing" and counseling.
Tags: juvenile justice; Hillsboro Treatment Center; Marion Juvenile Correctional Facility
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The death of Keisha
The author investigated the death of LaKeisha Brown in the custody of Alexander Youth Services Center. The girl's repeated requests for help over a period of days were brushed off by nurses at the juvenile lockup, and they were by the facility supervisors. The only medical attention she received the day of her death was some Advil and a puff of her inhaler. The medical examiner found that Keisha had died a slow death from blood clots in her lungs that had been there for a minimum of two days and up to two weeks.
Tags: juvenile facilities; Department of Justice; LaKeisha Brown; medical intervention; Youth Services; FOIA
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Behind Locked Doors
Glenda Taylor and the Kerrville Daily Times take a look at the Kerr County Juvenile Detention Center after former employees and community members witness staff members abusing juvenile residents at the facility. Complaints were made, but ignored. Other complaints centered around the low pay of juvenile detention officers, and complaints of use of restraints violating state standards.
Tags: Juvenile Detention Center; juvenile detention officers; juvenile detention center abuse; Texas Juvenile Probation Commission
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Young Offenders at Risk
The Orlando Sentinel published stories on April 11, 2004 documenting the abuse committed against juveniles in Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). The state welfare agency found 661 "cases of abuse and neglect at agency facilities over nine years." Then, on December 19, 2004, The Orlando Sentinel reported that the DJJ transferred offenders to long-term facilities, thus lengthening their stay for months and years.
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Sex Abuse Continues; Juvenile offenders often locked in rooms together
Staff reporter, Geoff Dutton of the Columbus Dispatch talks about the rate of sexual offenses amongst juveniles in Ohio's only prison for young rapists and sexual molesters. As this reporter discovered, there is widespread sexual activity among the inmates in this prison and also among inmates and the security personnel. The follow-up stories also covers how the facility lacks good counselors and social workers.
Tags: CAR; FOIA; Ohio's only prison for juvenile sexual offenders; juveniles crimes; juvenile prisons; inmates in juvenile prisons; Department of Youth Services; Circleville juvenile prison; Circleville; OH; Circleville
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In transit
An increasingly popular way to handle juvenile offenders is to send them away to "treatment centers," locked facilities, often far away from their homes, where they are under the supervision of caregivers trained in handling youth offenders. This article talks about some other options for treatment, as well as several reasons why the current system does not work.
Tags: juvenile; residential
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Throwaway Kids: Broken Promises; Curse or Cure? Desperate Children, Haphazard Care; Where New York Lags, Milwaukee Succeeds
A Journal News investigation into New York's care system for mentally ill children exposes abuse and neglect. Some of the most needy children are sent to residential treatment centers, which "are costly to taxpayers, yet function without adequate standards of oversight and without a means to evaluate the effectiveness of the care." A major finding is that the facilities increasingly use psychotropic drugs to keep the kids under control. Instead of helping children improve their conditions and returning them to their communities -- as a model Wisconsin program has achieved -- the New York system is overhauled.
Tags: emotionally disturbed teenagers; crime; police; arrests; school; orphanages; Department of Social Services; juvenile justice
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In A Child's Best Interest
MSNBC reports on child welfare hearings in three Indiana juvenile courts. "Specifically, these hearings involve children who are the victims of abuse, neglect, or at-risk situations. The program focuses on one of the more desperate corners of modern life and penetrates the world of the juvenile justice system, which, by law, is closed to the public and media. Our cameras expose stories of sexual abuse and capture how the courts handle these young victims. We also reveal excruciating, personal experiences as children are placed in residential treatment facilities. Lastly, we document the incompetence of a state child welfare system that allowed a teenage girl to go through two-dozen foster homes during her 14 years in the system."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Video; juvenile justice; FOIA; teenagers; foster children; abuse; neglect; sexual abuse; child welfare hearings; Indiana juvenile court; residential treatment facilities; state child welfare system