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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.