Assaults, crowding plague Prince George’s youth detention facility

Published December 18, 2011 5:00am ET



The Prince George’s County youth detention facility where a teacher was killed last year remains plagued by assaults, security lapses, crowding and understaffing, according to a new report. Maryland’s Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit, a watchdog for the state’s youth detention centers, says assaults and disturbances at the Cheltenham Youth Facility spiked in July, August and September compared with those months last year.

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  • Reports from the agency have slammed Cheltenham since February 2010, when instructor Hannah Wheeling was killed. A student who was 13 at the time has been charged in her death. This summer, two detainees briefly escaped, partly as a result of shoddy supervision, according to the monitoring agency.

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