Wow -- this is no way to treat troubled kids!

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080303/NEWS01/803030327
From the Cincinnati Enquirer....

Ohio youth prisons violent
Report finds mutual fear among teens, guards
BY JULIE CARR SMYTH | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS - The violence is provoked by the simplest things: a lunch tray mix-up, a snatched notebook, a sassy comeback or, in one case, a threatened rubber band attack.

But this is no middle school cafeteria. It's Ohio's youth prison system, where juvenile missteps can have painful consequences.

Since 2004, there have been at least 24 cases among the roughly 1,800 inmates housed by the Ohio Department of Youth Services being improperly slapped, kicked, choked, beaten, pushed through gates, rushed into walls or sexually molested by their caretakers.

In two cases - in 2004 and last May - a guard broke the arm of a teenager, according to department records reviewed by the Associated Press. A 180-pound youth housed in Marion lost consciousness when he was pressed to the floor by a 421-pound corrections officer. Another's eardrum was shattered when he was kicked in the head by a guard....

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