{"id":120827,"date":"2023-11-06T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=120827"},"modified":"2023-11-06T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:39:15","slug":"hellhole-jail-where-children-are-treated-as-animals-and-left-to-rot-in-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/hellhole-jail-where-children-are-treated-as-animals-and-left-to-rot-in-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellhole jail where children are treated as animals and left to rot in cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US hellhole juvenile detention centre is so overcrowded that young inmates are forced to spend entire days on the floor on mattresses like 'animals'.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Youth Center is a 150,000 square foot Juvenile Justice Services Center that, officially provides a range of services for teens and young adults, mainly acting as a short-term residential detention facility that offers social and educational programs.<\/p>\n

However, the 10-year-old centre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has come under harsh criticism for the conditions there, as one recent report suggests that 246 kids are packed into the facility designed for 184, as pictures released by the city show the dire conditions inside.<\/p>\n

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Gabby Jackson, fromthe city's Youth Art and Self-Empowerment Project, said 75% of the inmates were there for probation or house arrest violations. "They feel they treat them as if they're animals," she added.<\/p>\n

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The facility, reportedly designed to have a 'campus environment', is divided into living, learning, dining, recreation, counseling, judicial and administrative areas, including a 10,000 square foot state-of-the-art medical and dental suite.<\/p>\n

So, on the face of it, it should leave former inmates ready for a life on the straight and narrow. But Bre Stoves, a former inmate, claims that the truth is very far from the official line. <\/p>\n

"These systems [aren't] here to rehabilitate, they're here to create repeat offenders. Because a lot of times kids come in and once \u2026 they say, it's easy to get in, it's hard to get out," the 19-year-old said last year.<\/p>\n

Pictures released by the city show the overcrowding, with children snapped on rudimentary mattresses mere inches from one another lined up on the harsh ground. Some kids were even seen sleeping underneath benches inside the facility. <\/p>\n

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