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By Jean Casella | February 17, 2021

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At Wisconsin Juvenile Prisons, Children Face a Nightmare of Solitary Confinement and Abuse

February 22, 2017June 26, 2017 Valerie Kiebala
A security fence surrounds the entrance to the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for girls complex in rural Irma, Wis., in this file photo. The two schools are under federal investigation for alleged abuse and violations of the civil rights of juvenile inmates housed there.

At the Lincoln Hills School for Boys (LHS), a juvenile correctional facility in far northern Wisconsin, two entire buildings called the Krueger Unit and the Roosevelt Unit exist solely for the purpose of holding children in solitary confinement for 22 to 23 hours a day. Each unit holds two-dozen isolation cells, which measure seven by […]