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Conditions at South Carolina Juvenile Facility Unconstitutional
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2020
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2020, page 50
Filed under:
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
South Carolina.
by David M. Reutter
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued notice on February 5, 2020 that it has found the “totality of the conditions, practices, and incidents” it discovered at Broad River Road Complex (BRRC), South Carolina’s long-term juvenile commitment facility, violated the juveniles’ Fourteenth Amendment rights.
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