If you were sexually abused while in a juvenile detention facility, you might be eligible to pursue legal action and seek financial compensation for your damages.
Comprehensive investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice have uncovered a pervasive issue of staff-on-inmate abuse in American youth detention facilities. The findings also indicate that both private and public operators of these facilities often fostered environments of silence and cover-ups, enabling the abuse. Now, with the enactment of groundbreaking laws in several states, survivors of sexual abuse in youth detention centers are being given new opportunities to seek justice.