Por: The Advocate Opinion July 26, 2023
The teens that are currently don't have anyone to blame for their situation but themselves.They whine about no air conditioning or access to education (They keep promising that they'll give me an education but don't). Let me remind them that they were housed in an air-conditioned juvenile facility until they caused trouble and, in some cases, broke out. They had access to schools growing up and at the juvenile facility that they... + full article
The Advocate USA Opinion July 26, 2023
It’s just common sense that juvenile offenders ought not to with older inmates in a jail: The last thing anybody wants is for time spent behind bars to inculcate worse behavior in the young people we want to turn from a life of crime. And common sense is what Louisiana... + más
Civil rights groups ask U.S. Department of Education to investigate Angola youth lockup | The Advocate
Federal judge won't block plan to put teens at Angola: 'Untenable must yield to the intolerable' | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Crime March 22, 2023
Several civil rights groups asked the U.S. Department of Education this week to investigate whether youths incarcerated at the new juvenile lockup at Angola are receiving adequate educational opportunities.Last year, amid worsening problems at a , Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards... + más
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Teens from youth facilities statewide may end up at Angola unit, Louisiana official says | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Opinion October 23, 2022
As last week started, officials from the Office of Juvenile Justice took some journalists on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The facility, where up to 24 of what officials believe are the state’s most violent teenagers can stay, is just inside the... + más
Youth advocate says juveniles fearful as they 'live under the threat' of being sent to Angola | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Crime September 24, 2022
A federal judge says Louisiana’s to the State Penitentiary at Angola is “untenable” and disturbing.But the judge denied a request to immediately halt the plan, saying that, despite of activists, the youths' families and a cohort of lawyers, moving teens deemed... + más
James Gill: Plan to house juvenile offenders at Angola has bleeding hearts in a tizzy | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Opinion September 21, 2022
The feds are absolutely right: Putting a juvenile prison on the grounds of the is surely “problematic.”Whether it is a violation of federal law or not is a question that officials are debating now. What is not at all clear in the immediate term, though, is whether there’s... + más
Feds say Louisiana's plan to put teens in Angola is 'problematic,' call for other solutions | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Crime September 20, 2022
When youths held at Bridge City Center for Youth in Jefferson Parish learned that , their attorneys reported the teens started to panic. Youths began to call both the Louisiana Center for Children's Rights and their parents to assure their families they hadn't been... + más
The Advocate USA Opinion September 17, 2022
You can see why the plan to rehouse a bunch of on the grounds of the Angola state pen put so many bleeding hearts in a tizzy.Just think of the psychological trauma caused by proximity to such desperate specimens. The adult inmates must have been trembling in their boots. Those... + más
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