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Settlement Reached In Indiana Juvenile Conditions Of Confinement Action

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Consent Decrees, Mental Health, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Education (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons. Location: Indiana.

On February 8, 2006, the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) reached a
settlement agreement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
regarding conditions of confinement of juvenile prisoners at Logansport
Intake/Diagnostic Facility and South Bend Juvenile Correctional Facility.
The settlement is a result of an investigation initiated in 2004 ...

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