Por: The Advocate Crime October 26, 2023
Earlier this year, for teens on the site of the State Penitentiary at Angola after attorneys said the and not getting an education as required by federal law. But now civil rights groups say the problems persist at the facility where the teens were moved: Youth say they have been maced, forced to wear shackles while showering and denied basic services like schooling. And they are urging federal officials to investigate. The Jackson Parish... + full article
CBS News USA Nation November 14, 2023
Ashley Denney was about seven months pregnant in 2022 when police handcuffed her during an arrest in Carroll County, Georgia. Officers shackled her even though the state bans the use of restraints on pregnant women in custody beginning at the second trimester.In early July, she... + más
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The Advocate USA Crime September 15, 2023
Louisiana officials have removed all of the teens incarcerated at a controversial and relocated them to a new facility in Jackson Parish, officials said Friday. The north Louisiana facility where they have been moved opened over the summer and already serves youth in local... + más
Federal judge won't block plan to put teens at Angola: 'Untenable must yield to the intolerable' | The Advocate
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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
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
Teens from youth facilities statewide may end up at Angola unit, Louisiana official says | The Advocate
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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