FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Federal investigators will examine conditions in Kentucky's youth detention centers and whether the state has done enough to protect
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Federal investigators will examine conditions in Kentucky’s youth detention centers and whether the state has done enough to protect juveniles housed there, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.
The investigation will examine whether Kentucky protects the facilities’ juveniles from excessive force by staff as well as from prolonged isolation, violence and sexual abuse, the Justice Department said. A federal lawsuit filed in January alleged two teenage girls held in a county facility were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions, and one was kept in a padded cell with no toilet.
The statewide investigation will review conditions at eight youth detention centers and one youth development center run by the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice. Beshear recently hired longtime state corrections executive Randy White to take over as the state’s commissioner of the Department of Juvenile Justice. White’s predecessor became a lightning rod for criticism as the state-operated system struggled to quell violent outbursts at detention centers.
“Over the past four years, the administration has enacted the most extensive reforms to the Department of Juvenile Justice since its inception,” the Democratic governor said Wednesday.
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