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ACLU lawsuit challenges strip searches, punitive isolation of girls at TYC Brownwood unit

ACLU's national women's project and the ACLU of Texas filed suit this week over use of solitary confinement and strip searching among girls housed at the Brownwood unit, according this press announcement :a class action lawsuit [filed] today on behalf of five girls ? all of whom have histories of sexual, physical, or emotional abuse ? held in the Brownwood State School. Brownwood is a ?high security? youth prison located in central Texas and operated by the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), the state?s juvenile corrections agency. The ACLU charges that TYC subjects the girls to unwarranted solitary confinement, routine strip searches and brutal physical force. ?Throwing children into cold, bare solitary confinement cells is profoundly damaging, especially to children who previously have been abused," said Mie Lewis, staff attorney with the ACLU Women?s Rights Project...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).