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Busted toilets, peeling paint, sewage backups, lice: a peek inside juvenile lockups [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

 

This article and others in this series were produced as part of a project for the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship, in conjunction with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

On a Monday in early October, the top administrator at the Bradenton youth lockup issued a terse order to subordinates:

“Do not flush.”

Three days earlier, on Sept. 30, the Manatee Regional Juvenile Detention Center’s plumbing went haywire. While youths in the lockup were showering, the drains from three living units and the infirmary began “to overflow with sewage,” a lockup supervisor wrote in an email.

[For more on this story by Carol Marbin Miller, go to https://www.centerforhealthjou...ide-juvenile-lockups]

Photo: Photos from an inspection show conditions in the Miami-Dade juvenile lockup. When conditions had not significantly improved by the time lawmakers paid a visit months later, the superintendent received a reprimand. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice

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