Attack exposes security weakness in Oklahoma juvenile center
A vicious nighttime attack that caused a brain injury to a boy at a Tecumseh institution for juvenile offenders spotlighted a security weakness within the juvenile system.
August 29, 2011, Oklahoman City Oklahoman -- (Oklahoma) Nighttime attack exposes security weakness in Oklahoma’s juvenile detention system.
A vicious nighttime attack August 5 that caused a brain injury to a boy at a Tecumseh institution for juvenile offenders spotlighted a security weakness within Oklahoma’s juvenile system.
When the Legislature decided to close the L.E. Rader Center in Sand Springs, the system lost its capability to lock violence-prone juvenile offenders in their rooms at night.
The victim was "in bed with the covers pulled up" when he was severely beaten by another juvenile on the evening of August 5, said the Pottawatomie County district attorney, who has received an investigative report on the incident.
The sleeping rooms at the medium-security Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center in Tecumseh, where the attack occurred, are cubbyholes off a large community room. They do not have doors and can not be locked, he said.
Link: http://newsok.com/nighttime-attack-exposes-security-weakness-in-oklahomas-juvenile-detention-system/article/3599254
Source: DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 30 August 2011
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