BRIDGE CITY, La. (AP)– Ten young wrongdoers from a rural New Orleans juvenile lockup afflicted by violence and leaves were moved to the state’s primary adult jail Tuesday, a short-lived relocation permitted by a federal judge over the objections of criminal justice supporters and the young prisoners’ households. The 10 were the very first of approximately two-dozen youths– considered at threat of escape or violent habits– targeted for transfer from the Bridge City Center for Youth to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a vast, remote, optimal security jail farm north of Baton Rouge. Gov. John Bel Edwards and corrections authorities revealed the transfer strategy in July amidst growing pressure from chosen authorities worried about leaves by approximately 2 lots prisoners from the youth center considering that early in 2015. Pressure had actually magnified after 6 young prisoners subdued a guard, locked the guard in a closet and leapt over a fence. A carjacking and shooting in New Orleans, blamed on among the 6, contributed to the pressure. State authorities worried that the scenario is momentary, while brand-new youth centers are built– which the young prisoners would be segregated from the adult population at Angola. Juvenile justice supporters and households of the young prisoners challenged the transfer from Bridge City to Angola. The penitentiary is house to severe wrongdoers, some sentenced to death. It is where executions of condemned detainees are performed. It has its own checkered history of in some cases bloody violence and has actually been the topic of lawsuits declaring insufficient healthcare. Political Cartoons Republican Sen. Pat Connick, of Marrero
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