collector of magic moments, journalist, doc filmmaker... in that order. director @ngqfilm, Knocking Down the Fences and 8 Days at Ware
Oct 31, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
1/ After back-to-back suicides at a juvenile detention center in Louisiana in 2019, @rachel_muel & I spent 3 yrs trying to understand how those deaths could happen. What we found was evidence of abuse, overlooked complaints and a surge in suicide attempts nyti.ms/3zu5wCL2/ We learned that kids had been on lockdown for 23 hours a day. We learned of guards who withheld sanitary pads, bribed kids to beat up other kids, and committed physical and sexual abuse. We learned that Ware leaders repeatedly failed to take allegations seriously.
