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Girls Sue Alabama Juvenile Prison for Abuse
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2002, page 15
Five girls who were incarcerated at the Chalkville juvenile lockup in Alabama have filed a massive $171 million lawsuit against the agency that runs the jail, the Department of Youth Services (DYS). The suit charges, among other things, that the girls were the victims of repeated and routine sexual abuse …
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Sexual Harassment,
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Gender Discrimination -- Women.
Location:
Michigan.
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