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Lawsuit alleges 30 years of ongoing sexual abuse by Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center guards

Fifteen Washington residents who were previously incarcerated at the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center testified that ...

Mecklenburg County juvenile detention center remains closed, future uncertain

I tried to lease. I tried to buy. I tried to offer incentives for them to do it,” said William Lassiter, Deputy Secretary of ...
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Employees recorded sex tapes inside Washington juvenile facility

In the predawn hours one morning in April 2024, a guard at Washington's most secure juvenile detention facility unlocked a ...

Sheriff McFadden responds to the State’s request to reopen Jail North as “unrealistic”

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice has requested that the ...

Years after Charlotte’s juvenile jail closed, some hope for its return

There’s disagreement on how to proceed. Sheriff Garry McFadden shut it down in 2022 so he could move staff to the adult jail.

Staffing issues challenge reopening of Mecklenburg County juvenile detention center

Mecklenburg County's Sheriff believes the state's request to reopen the county's juvenile detention center is unrealistic, as ...

Lawsuit alleges decades of child sexual abuse at Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center

At least 15 children incarcerated at the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center were groomed and sexually abused by guards at the facility over the span of three decades, according to a complaint ...