Closure Of Maryland Boot Camps Amid Abuse Allegations Signals Major Scrutiny Of State’s Juvenile Justice System

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Three years after opening three highly touted boot camps for juvenile offenders, Governor Parris Glendening and Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend have announced the camps' closures following revelations of serious abuse. The closure of the camps is due, in part, to a series of articles in The Baltimore Sun that revealed that camp guards routinely used "strong-arm tactics" to control juvenile delinquents in the fenceless camps in the western Maryland mountains. The guards have since become the subjects . . .