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A federal judge Friday ordered Louisiana prison officials to remove youth offenders from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

A federal judge on Friday ordered that incarcerated youths be removed from a temporary lockup at a former death row building in Louisiana's adult maximum-security prison by Sept. 15 after critics argued the youths are kept in unsafe conditions and don't receive adequate schooling or mental health services.

Contrary to the state's promises, the kids were held in solitary confinement for days at a time, punished with pepper spray and denied access to educational and rehabilitative services.

A federal judge ordered that incarcerated youths be removed from a temporary lockup at a former death row building in Louisiana’s maximum-security prison by Sept. 15

Wikimedia CommonsNearly a year after being incarcerated in the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison—including being held in solitary confinement and placed in death row cells, youth detainees will finally be transferred from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a former plantation for enslaved African Americans commonly known as “Angola”.The children will be released by Sept. 15, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.In a press release issued on the ACLU’s website Friday, Chief