Lawsuit: Girls Abused At Detention Hall
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JACKSON, Miss. — Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to “horrendous physical and sexual abuse,” a youth advocacy group claimed in a federal lawsuit. The Mississippi Youth Justice Project sued the state Wednesday on behalf of six girls, ages 13 to 17, and called for the shutdown of the troubled Columbia Training School. All the girls involved have mental illnesses.
