Juvenile Hall Is No Place for Kids
Tamar Birckhead
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Posted 12.31.2012
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Crime
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The rundown building is surrounded by barbed wire. Inside, kids sleep in narrow locked cells, no different from what you'd find in an adult jail. They are subjected to strip searches and attend an hour or two of "school" in a crowded room filled with a random selection of books.
