Por: The Advocate Crime October 20, 2022
State officials on Wednesday completed what they called the first phase of a plan to temporarily move some incarcerated youth from beleaguered state-run juvenile lockups across Louisiana on the grounds of the State Penitentiary at Angola.Four youth from the Acadiana Center for Youth at St. Martinville and four youth from Swanson Center for Youth at Monroe were moved to the West Feliciana Center for Youth, which is what the state is calling the... + full article
The Advocate USA Crime October 18, 2022
Motivational posters adorned the walls and a National Hockey League commercial blared from a TV mounted opposite a row of barred cells — measures officials hope will make an old death row building feel more welcoming for incarcerated teens who will soon live there.The first... + más
Federal judge won't block plan to put teens at Angola: 'Untenable must yield to the intolerable' | The Advocate
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 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
Feds say Louisiana's plan to put teens in Angola is 'problematic,' call for other solutions | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Crime September 17, 2022
The federal government is scrutinizing Louisiana's plan to move some incarcerated teens to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, with one top Washington justice official calling the idea problematic and urging the state to look for other options.Meanwhile, some state... + más
Inside the plan to house teens at Angola: Key new details emerge in federal court hearings | The Advocate
When they unveiled a plan to move some young offenders from the Bridge City Center for Youth to a high-security unit , Louisiana leaders spoke mostly about how it would stem chaos at that single youth jail.Dozens of documents and hours of testimony in federal court this week... + más
Teens from across Louisiana's youth jails could end up at a new high-security lockup , a state official told a U.S. judge Wednesday — a wider pool of youth inmates than officials previously disclosed.State leaders said in July that only half of roughly 50 teens currently... + 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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