FRANKFORT, Ky. — Federal investigators will examine conditions in Kentucky ’s youth detention centers and whether the state has done enough to protect juveniles housed there, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.“We are launching this investigation to ensure that children in Kentucky youth detention facilities are safe from harm, receive adequate mental health care and get appropriate special education services,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke.
“Confinement in the juvenile justice system should help children avoid future contact with law enforcement and mature into law-abiding, productive members of society. Too often, juvenile justice facilities break our children, exposing them to dangerous and traumatic conditions,” said Clarke, who is with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Keith Jackson, the state’s Justice and Public Safety secretary, added: “We look forward to being able to talk to the Department of Justice, because as of today, no members of our leadership have been interviewed, and we have not had the opportunity to discuss any incident, policy or issue with the Department of Justice.”longtime state corrections executive Randy White to take over as the state’s commissioner of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
“Over the past four years, the administration has enacted the most extensive reforms to the Department of Juvenile Justice since its inception,” the Democratic governor said Wednesday.
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