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  • State Inspector General: Ware Youth Center a safe, secure environment suitable juvenile detention center

    BATON ROUGE — The Office of State Inspector General concluded that the Ware Youth Center, the Red River Parish youth detention center with inmates from across the state, to be "a safe and secure environment suitable to house juveniles who have entered Louisiana’s juvenile justice system" in a report released Thursday."During nine different visits to Ware, OIG investigators observed clean, safe and secure facilities and professional staff. Over the past three years, as part of its...

  • Closing arguments heard in NH youth detention center abuse suit

    Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday in a landmark case seeking to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for abuse at its youth detention center. The plaintiff, David Meehan, went to police in 2017 and sued the state three years later alleging he was brutally beaten, raped and held in solitary confinement at the Youth Development Center in the 1990s. Since then, 11 former state workers have been arrested and more than 1,100 other former residents have filed lawsuits alleging physical,...

  • New Hampshire jury finds state liable for abuse at youth detention center and awards victim $38M

    A New Hampshire jury has found the state liable for abuse at its youth detention center and has awarded $38 million to a former resident who says he was beaten and raped as a teen. But the state says its law requires reducing the amount to $475,000. David Meehan’s lawsuit against the state was the first of more than 1,100 to be filed and the first to go to trial. In the ruling on Friday jurors found the state’s negligence in hiring, training and supervising employees allowed his abuse. The state...