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Two teenage girls held at a troubled Kentucky juvenile detention center were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions, including a padded cell with no toilet, a federal class-action lawsuit filed this week alleges. The teens were held at the Adair County Youth Detention Center in late 2022, around the same time state police reported a riot at the facility that started when a juvenile assaulted a staff member.

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In Jackson County, Indiana, Joshua McLemore, a 29-year-old man who suffered from schizophrenia, died after 20 days in solitary confinement. In Fulton County, Georgia, horrifying photos show deceased 35-year-old Shawn Thompson, who also suffered from mental illness, covered in sores and bedbugs after being abandoned in a filthy jail cell for months.

For nearly three weeks, Joshua McLemore lived in solitary confinement at the Jackson County Jail.

The accused had rambled on incoherently during his initial hearing in July 2021 about the Bible and his case.