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FROM: NEW YORK TIMES

Privately Run Juvenile Prison in Louisiana Is Attacked for Abuse of 6 Inmates
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E1FFC3D5E0C758DDDAA0894D8404482
By FOX BUTTERFIELD

National Desk | March 16, 2000, Thursday

ABSTRACT: State Judge Mark Doherty removes six teenage boys from juvenile prison in Jena, La, after finding they had been brutalized by guards, kept in solitary confinement for months and deprived of basic needs and care; prison is run by Wackenhut Corrections Corp, largest for-profit prison operator; photo (M) A state judge in New Orleans has removed six teenage boys from a juvenile prison after finding they had been brutalized by guards, kept in solitary confinement for months and deprived of shoes, blankets, education and medical care.

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