Sunday, August 4, 2024

Texas lockups violate minors’ constitutional rights, says US justice department

Staff in the detention centers have engaged in sexual acts with children, kept some for stretches of 17 to 22 hours of isolation in their cells and pepper-sprayed minors in their faces, US assistant attorney general Kristen Clarke said in releasing Thursday's report. 

Clarke also noted that about 80% of detained Texas children are Black or Hispanic...

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