A federal judge has ended a decade of court-ordered oversight of Ohio's juvenile prison system.
Ohio Public Radio鈥檚 Jo Ingles reports.
In 2004, two child-advocacy lawyers sued the , claiming excessive use of force against children, inadequate education, denial of proper medical and mental health care and failure to adequately train and supervise staff.
At that point, a federal judge ordered oversight of the youth lockups, and the also got involved. That began a series of changes at Ohio鈥檚 seven juvenile detention centers.
Two years ago, most of the monitoring required in that initial ruling was ended and now, a federal judge has terminated the rest of it.
The department has closed all but three facilities and today houses fewer than 500 children, down from 1,800 a decade ago.
