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BATON ROUGE - A police officer accused of leading a 19-year-old to an abandoned warehouse where he allegedly groped her and threatened to arrest lost his job Wednesday, more than a year after he was placed on paid leave over the allegations.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Around two dozen juvenile inmates at a troubled Louisiana detention center won’t be moved to the notorious state penitentiary at Angola until at least the middle of next month, as a legal battle over their transfer plays out, officials said Tuesday.
BATON ROUGE - Twenty-five juveniles locked up at the Bridge City Center for Youth will stay put a little longer.Tuesday, the Governor's office told a judge they will wait until Sept. 15 to transfer them to Angola. The fight to keep the young criminals in a juvenile detention center and away from a state prison continues.We're supposed to just close our eyes and accept the fact that were going to take kids from a juvenile facility and shove them to the Louisiana State Penitentiary,
Officials have long acknowledged issues at the center, which wasn't designed to house certain high-risk inmates. There have been at least 4 escapes this year.
A law firm representing relatives of a 2-year-old child who died after consuming fentanyl plans to sue the Department of Children and Family Services, which had reports of the child ingesting the dangerous drug twice before his death.