Perhaps New Beginnings, the name of D.C.’s reform school, is not just Orwellian but also a cruel joke, especially for the men and women hired to guard the city’s worst juvenile offenders. We might start calling the posh digs “Never Ending,” for the violence that some of the kids bring to the campus and take with them when they depart.

“We’re the ones walking around with restraints,” corrections union leader Tasha Williams told me. The officers cannot handcuff or restrain juveniles who misbehave. They are not armed and have no way to discipline kids. “You have to let them know this is a corrections facility — not a camp.”

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