“I know from the time I got to Jackson, I was praying and hoping everyday that I could get as far away as possible from there,” said a young man who was kept in the unlicensed Jackson juvenile facility.

A DCFS inspection found evidence to support claims from him and other kids about extended stints of solitary confinement and extensive abuse — but the agency gave the jail a license anyway. […]

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