Family: Charges should be manslaughter

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Justice has not been served. That?s what the family of Isaiah Simmons III, 17, of Baltimore, said when it learned Tuesday that a Carroll Circuit grand jury indicted six employees of a Carroll juvenile facility on charges of reckless endangerment.

“We feel it?s manslaughter,” said Danielle Carter, a sister of Simmons, who died Jan. 23 after staff members at Bowling Brook Preparatory School in Keymar restrained him for hours after an outburst. “Based on the fact that my brother is no longer here, that?s manslaughter.”

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