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Panel OKs closure of Louisiana youth prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Panel OKs closure of Louisiana youth prison May 20, 2008 BATON ROUGE (AP) ? Gov. Bobby Jindal?s administration is supporting a plan to shut down a state juvenile prison near Louisiana?s capital city and send its teenage inmates to facilities better equipped to educate them. A Senate judiciary committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would close the Jetson Center for Youth, in rural East Baton Rouge Parish, by June 2009. The prison has long been the focus of criticism because of violence and inadequate educational and job training capabilities. The bill?s sponsor, Sen. Don Cravins Jr., said the lockup ?looks like a 1949 prison? with its decaying buildings, cell blocks and razor wire. Richard Thompson, Jindal?s juvenile justice chief, said his Office of Youth Development would gradually reduce the number of youths locked up at Jetson, probably beginning this summer...continue to full post

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