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Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome says 17-year-olds should be jailed at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, but Sheriff Sid Gautreaux is refusing to take them.
Attorneys for Lee Michael Creely claim that a nurse working at the jail lied about her account of what happened on the day Creely died.
A federal court order that bars Louisiana from housing incarcerated youth at the state penitentiary at Angola expires this month, raising questions about whether state officials might try to move troubled teens back to the maximum security adult prison.
Five teens, three of whom the state recently removed from a youth lockup at the State Penitentiary at Angola, attempted a violent escape from a north Louisiana jail this week,