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Louisiana hoping to build new youth prisons to replace old, unsafe lockups; advocates concerned

“‘We agree that Bridge City and Swanson need to be closed; they’re too large, outdated and dangerous,’ said Rachel Gassert, the policy director for the children's rights center. But she also notes there is ‘no evidence that a youth prison model really works that well to rehabilitate children’.“

The Advocate

July 4, 2019