Jeff Landry has picked the longtime leader of a controversial juvenile detention center in north Louisiana where staff members faced allegations of sexual abuse, violence and psychological torture to run the Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice, according to two people who work in juvenile justice. “In all, they identified 30 staff members who had sexually abused children at Ware.”Loftin declined to comment for this story on Wednesday morning. But the Office of Juvenile Justice abruptly ended that arrangement with the facility last September. The state still pays the facility to run juvenile justice substance abuse programs and group homes on the site. Some of those contracts would likely fall under Loftin’s control at the Office of Juvenile Justice.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2024 17:42 UTC