BRIDGE CITY, La.—A Louisiana state senator is calling for a detention center housing juveniles who have committed violent crimes to be shut down after an “uprising” of 20 inmates in the facility on Thursday night.
State Senator Patrick Connick, a Republican, told The Epoch Times that the Bridge City Center for Youth (BCCY) wasn’t designed to hold violent criminals, having originally been a girl’s dormitory operated by nuns.
“In the last year, there have been 20 escapes, and these aren’t juveniles who spray paint the side of buildings,” Connick said. “These are carjackers, rapists, and murderers, the worse of the worst.”…