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Parents allege solitary confinement, mistreatment at Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center

Kids at the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center are kept in their cells for 23 hours a day, get poor nutrition and rarely go outside. Those are just some allegations made by parents of the children detained there before their court hearings.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd gets the latest from Josephine Peterson of The Dallas Morning News.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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