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Boys, most of them Black, are being caged in sweltering cells in 133 heat with no AC. Also: managing bipolar illness with medication. Culturally relevant care for Latinos. And more.

New court filings reveal for the first time that children — almost all Black boys — are being placed in routine solitary confinement for 72 hours when they are detained in the former death row building of the nation’s largest adult maximum security prison — Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola.

The allegations are contained in new documents filed in the ongoing lawsuit that the two agencies have brought against the state on behalf of teens incarcerated at the state prison.

The ACLU Louisiana along with other organizations have filed a lawsuit against the LA State Penitentiary for placing kids in solitary confinement.

Children incarcerated at Louisiana's Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day as heat indexes spike.

The ACLU Louisiana along with other organizations have filed a lawsuit against the LA State Penitentiary for placing kids in solitary confinement.

Local advocates are requesting a judge to take emergency action to remove children from Angola prison's death row building after discovering abuse.

The ACLU Louisiana along with other organizations have filed a lawsuit against the LA State Penitentiary for placing kids in solitary confinement.

The ACLU Louisiana along with other organizations have filed a lawsuit against the LA State Penitentiary for placing kids in solitary confinement.

The Florida juvenile prison for girls got a 100 percent satisfactory rating from the state a year ago, though two staffers have been accused of abusing girls there, and one was caught on video.