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\nAfter a riot at a juvenile detention center leaves one employee in the hospital, a teenage girl allegedly assaulted and multiple others injured, Governor Andy Beshear said changes are coming.<\/p>\n
\nAfter a riot at a juvenile detention center leaves one employee in the hospital, a teenage girl allegedly assaulted and multiple others injured, Governor Andy Beshear said changes are coming.<\/p>\n
Beshear proposed having a facility for female detainees only, rather than housing them in the same units as reported by several sources but disputed by the Cabinet\u2019s spokesperson, Morgan Hall.<\/p>\n
He also would like to re-arrange the structure of the detention centers, designating some facilities for violent offenders, and others for non-violent youth.<\/p>\n
Beshear said the impact may be that some families have to travel farther to see their incarcerated youth.<\/p>\n
The concerns have hit a boiling point. Whistleblowers at both the embattled detention center in Lyndon, and at Adair County have come forward, describing shocking conditions for both the teenage detainees and the employees.<\/p>\n
Three registered nurses, who quit working at Adair because of the things they witnessed, said they could not ethically and morally stay.<\/p>\n
They described guards putting their hands on teens, teens having sex, not feeding detainees as a form of punishment, teens locked in isolation for days, not getting showers of phone calls to their parents or lawyers, incidents not being documented or reports recorded with false narratives, no schooling and close to no training for the employees.<\/p>\n
The nurses said they also experienced times when they suspected a teen was injured but the center\u2019s supervisor did not allow them to make an assessment. The supervisor restricted one even when a teen was unresponsive.
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