Por: The Advocate Crime April 19, 2023
Repairs at a youth prison in north Louisiana slated for completion this spring have been pushed to the fall, state officials said, keeping a controversial juvenile lockup at Angola open longer than initially anticipated.Amid that coincided with an earlier incident at the Bridge City Center for Youth in Jefferson Parish last summer, the Office of Juvenile Justice developed a plan to temporarily house teens deemed particularly problematic at... + full article
The Advocate USA Crime April 11, 2023
A 16-year-old formerly held at a juvenile facility at Louisiana State Penitentiary says he was confined to his room for two days, unable to speak to anyone and only allowed to leave to shower, new court filings say. The teen, identified in a court document as Frank F., is... + más
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Civil rights groups ask U.S. Department of Education to investigate Angola youth lockup | 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
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
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
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
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
Inside the plan to house teens at Angola: Key new details emerge in federal court hearings | 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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