http://qz.com/770021/jailed-kids-are-the-forgotten-victims-of-americas-mass-incarceration-crisis/

For the past several years, the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, Connecticut’s largest youth prison, has been under multiple investigations by the Office of the Child Advocate for excessive use of isolation, overuse of restraints, inadequate suicide prevention, lack of appropriate staff support and training, inadequate and harmful crisis management, and scant available information on quality, public safety outcomes, and oversight. Last year, the Child Advocate’s office released video of staff members conducting face-down restraints on young people at the training school—which are illegal in Connecticut schools and treatment centers.

These abuses are not limited to a few “bad apple” facilities. According to reports from incarcerated youth around the US, abuse and violence by prison staff is common.