“20 states have laws requiring that juveniles be kept apart from adult prisoners. Yet most of the nation’s 3,000 jails lack dedicated facilities for children – leaving them with no alternative but to place kids in solitary. A majority of people in jail are there awaiting trial, which means many children in solitary have not even been convicted of a crime.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/10/kids-in-solitary-confinement-state-sponsored-child-abuse/
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