State Agrees To End Use Of Pepper Spray, Restrict Solitary Under Settlement With Teen Inmates
The agreement would within one year phase out much of the practices at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls in Irma -- the state's only youth prison and the subject of a number of lawsuits including the federal class-action suit resolved Friday, which was brought by a number of current and former inmates at the prison who were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and the Juvenile Law Center.
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