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DOJ to investigate Kentucky youth detention centers after scathing audit
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a statewide investigation into conditions at eight youth detention centers and one youth development center run by the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, federal officials announced Wednesday afternoon. The DOJ Civil Rights Division’s Special Litigation Section, alongside U.S. Attorney's Offices in Kentucky, will investigate whether the state protects the facilities' occupants from "excessive force by staff, prolonged and punitive isolation and inadequate protection from violence and sexual abuse," according to...
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