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MS: Southern Poverty Law Center Calls for Closing Mississippi Youth Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

11/17/2008 SPLC Calls for Closing of Mississippi Youth Prison The Southern Poverty Law Center today called for the state of Mississippi to abandon the use of large youth prisons following a report showing that after almost four years, the state's Oakley Training School has made virtually no progress in ensuring that children held at the prison are safe and receiving effective suicide prevention and mental health treatment. "It is time for Mississippi to face the facts ? large training schools that warehouse children do not work," said Bear Atwood, director of the SPLC's Mississippi Youth Justice Project. "They are an expensive and ineffective relic of the past. We must stop wasting the taxpayers' money and actually start helping these youths...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).