NY kids kept in state solitary confinement for months without toilets, new suit claims: ‘Barbaric’
Kids in New York’s juvenile detention centers were placed in solitary confinement in tiny cells for up to 24 hours a day — some lacking fresh water and a bucket for a toilet — over minor infractions or as a way to deal with staffing issues, a new bombshell lawsuit claims.
The class action suit claims five facilities under the State Office of Children and Family Services “routinely and unlawfully [impose] solitary confinement” as punishment on children as young as 12 left “alone in small, barren cells for extended periods.”
Many of the so-called “infractions” sparking the punishing treatment are due to behavioral issues from diagnosed disabilities, the suit claims — adding some kids told guards they’d rather kill themselves than endure the care of OCFS.
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