A juvenile detention center in Fort Lauderdale is under fire for offering food as a reward for beating up a teenager in its custody.
A 13-year-old identified as A.R. was hospitalized for three weeks after staff at the Broward Juvenile Detention Center offered a “snack bounty” in exchange for beating him up. After A.R. was struck on the head by another teenager, staff left him in a solitary room that was scrubbed with bleach. Inhaling the toxic fumes, A.R. suffered a near-fatal asthma attack that landed him in the hospital. But his mother, Shantell McNair, wasn’t informed about the incident until her son was released 21 days later....
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/20/3799770/florida-juvenile-center-offers-snack-bounty-to-attack-kids/
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