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Youth Lockup In Little Rock Not Working


November 5, 2006
By Mike Duncan
 
An advocacy group's draft report says that the Alexander Youth Services Center isn't rehabilitating the state's most dangerous juvenile offenders who are sent there.

Instead, the center is punishing the youths, the report by the Disability Rights Center said.

Yesterday, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette obtained a copy of the report, which is expected to be released this week.

The report comes days after the state ended its contract with a private company that ran the center for the past five years. A report found that some staffers may have inappropriately given children psychotropic drugs to control them.

Julie Munsell, spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services declined to comment about the report until it is published and officials meet with the group's representatives. Health and Human Services oversees the Youth Services Division, which now operates the youth lockup.

Monitors for Disability Rights have been making unannounced visits, as allowed by federal statute, to the center at least three times a month since March. McClain said the advocacy group's monitors found:

--Youths watching Harry Potter movies during science class.

--No teacher-led reading program, even though at least 50 percent of offenders at the center have difficulties reading.

--An inability to obtain educational, mental health and medical records from doctors and parents.

--A failure to issue diplomas or certificates of completion to students completing work.

--A lack of proper mental-health evaluations.

--A failure to medicate and properly treat children who have previously been medicated after a mental-illness diagnosis.

 

 

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