Resource: Forrest County

By: Southern Poverty Law Center

March 7, 2011

Southern Poverty Law Center

The Forrest County Juvenile Detention Center in Mississippi was the site of numerous abuse allegations. Security camera footage from the facility showed youths being slammed into walls and beaten by staffers. One youth in the video footage was hogtied by a guard. In addition to the abuse documented in the video, the juvenile detention center regularly confined children in filthy, crowded cells for 23 hours a day.

https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/disability-rights-mississippi-v-forrest-county-miss