Keith Roysdon, writing for the Muncie Star Press, reports that the long struggling Cedarbridge Juvenile Facility has closed.
Cedarbridge Treatment Centers — which recently told other Indiana county court systems it would be relocating and moving their juveniles — closed on Thursday. Employees told The Star Press on Tuesday that representatives from Cedarbridge’s corporate office in Indianapolis loaded the last 19 or so juvenile inmates into vans on Thursday and took them away, presumably to a facility in Ladoga in West Central Indiana.
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In early 2013, the Indiana Department of Correction reported on inspections of the facility by noting, “Cedarbridge Treatment Center has not demonstrated an ability to ensure long-term compliance with the Indiana juvenile detention standards or an ability to improve and maintain the quality of confinement for youth entrusted to their care.”
I was locked in that facility for months and ended up with serious medical complications from my stay. There was black mold on the cafeteria ceiling where we ate for Christ’s sake. Does this mean I can sue?
i was in that same detention center. when i got there they told me it was hands on but they did not tell me the i would leave with broken limbs. while i was there there was officers that where sleeping with the girl juvenile inmates with out there permission. also was thretened if they said anything they would have tremendous consequenses. the faciulities workers felt as if they could do what they would wanted because they had the power to keeps us there if we spoke up. there was other insidences that was alot to handle when the girl would take there showers there would be a majority of the time that it was male facultiy watching us. we took group showers with no curtains. as well as if there was a problem the male staff would be the ones to restrain us while we where naked, and if we had to go to the bathroom we could not go if we did not say it right there was a time i had to hold it all day from getting up until we took showers because when i first got there I had no idea of hoe to properly say the perfered word. i was in isolation for 3 weeks. i had the green suit because i was suicidle. my suit would not latch nor did i have a bed i had a contrite stoop that i slept on. there was 2 times that that i had to comite suicide and they refused to talk to me they retrained me gave me a shoot and put me to sleep. from the time going in to isolation and comeing out i was sick i had several bruises and gashes on my body from where they had restrained me. over all the stay i had there it made me diffrent it changed me for the better. but i still have nightmares of the stay that i had the there. it scared my memories for life